How to Use collodion in a Sentence

collodion

noun

• The two men then moved to the dark room, where Mumler coated the plate with the syrupy collodion which would allow an image to form, and then to the sitting room.
  — Peter Manseau, Smithsonian, 11 Oct. 2017
• Mann loves the mistakes, warts, and chanciness of collodion printing.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018
• Ruhter’s images, rendered on massive sheets of aluminum and glass — sometimes up to 5-feet wide, are made using the collodion wet plate process that saw its heyday around the time of the Civil War.
  — Maxine Marshall, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2018
• Wet collodion is the same technique used by Matthew Brady to make his Civil War battlefield images and portraits.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 21 June 2017
• Martin has practiced wet plate collodion photography for a decade, the Print Room said.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 21 June 2017
• Photographer Adrian Whipp is a master of the wet plate collodion process and will capture your grinning mugs in a tintype as timeless as your friendship.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Marie Claire, 5 May 2021
• Gibbons used a 19th-century format, the wet-plate collodion process.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
• Infants are born with a shiny, waxy layer of skin, called a collodion membrane, that sheds after the first two weeks of life, revealing skin under the membrane that is dark, tight, and split, similar to scales or extremely dry skin.
  — Amanda Mitchell, Allure, 28 Apr. 2021
• Sternbach used an ultra large-format camera and collodion-coated glass plate negatives to capture each board.
  — Donny Bajohr, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2020
• Sacabo creates collaged and distorted photographic images with a wet collodion on metal process that dates back to the 19th century.
  — Sarah Bonnette, NOLA.com, 23 May 2018
• Beginning in 1851, daguerreotypy gave way to the wet collodion process, which made photography cheaper, faster, and reproducible.
  — Nancy West, The Atlantic, 19 July 2017
• The wet plate collodion process is 19th-century technology.
  — Matthew Sweet, Newsweek, 25 June 2017
• Focusing strongly on her Gambian roots, as well as identity conflicts and spirituality, her photographs were often monochrome, and aged using an old-fashioned process called collodion tintype.
  — Clive Martin, CNN, 23 June 2017

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