How to Use tintype in a Sentence

tintype

noun
  • The fading tintype of a long-dead great-great-great-aunt that creeps you out.
    Amanda Chemeche, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 June 2023
  • The tintype, or emulsion plate photography, dates to the 1850s.
    Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2022
  • And there, in a battered Irish tintype, is my great-grandmother, Margaret McGuire.
    Campbell McGrath, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2020
  • In one striking tintype dated 1859, a young boy perches on a seat, eyes open, holding a rattle.
    Nancy West, The Atlantic, 19 July 2017
  • Good-ridge and Ball also adopted the tintype process, which produced images on a thin sheet of iron coated with a dark lacquer or enamel.
    Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • Monk is now smiling with an air of sublimated rage and disbelief, still and statuesque as a tintype.
    Harmony Holiday, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Visitors are welcome to drop by the studio and gallery to learn about tintype photography.
    Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Old tintypes sit on top of a 19th-century Singer sewing machine handed down from Shirley’s grandmother.
    Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Lines gathered outside a stand that sold newsboy caps and another that offered on-site tintype portraits.
    Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 20 June 2023
  • The elements of the image are straightforward enough: A bluish tintype from the mid-19th century has two very large pink blossoms superimposed on it.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
  • But as an Oakland tintype portrait photographer proves filters can't come close to the original craft developed in the mid 1800's.
    Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2018
  • One Fawick Gallery wall shows tintype images of Chapman posing as asylum patients.
    Beth Mlady, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Silver and Cedar is a tintype photography studio and leather shop that carries furnishings, keepsakes and in-house made wood décor.
    Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The current artist in residence at the Pfister is tintype photographer Margaret Muza.
    Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Salgado says a tintype portrait is as important today as in centuries past.
    Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Get a tarot reading, tintype photography or have your silhouette drawn.
    Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Along with portraits, Mr. Wool specializes in making tintype images.
    John Peabody, New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • Meanwhile, at the Pfister Hotel itself, current artist in residence Margaret Muza will show her tintype photography and working process.
    Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2018
  • They were created as tintypes, a period technique, and relatively small.
    Vicki Goldberg, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The medium has grown and changed over the centuries, both aesthetically and technologically, but whether someone is shooting on an iPhone or a bulbous tintype camera, the results can be magical and inspiring.
    Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
  • A vitrine of daguerreotypes and tintypes from the Burns Family Collection shows a series of ingeniously heartbreaking attempts, only some of them successful, to make recent corpses look lifelike for the camera.
    Roberta Smith, Karen Rosenberg, Will Heinrich and Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
  • The slow, deliberate tintype process fostered a more intimate connection between the photographers and their subjects.
    John Otis, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Metal images tend to predominate in studies of early photography, thanks to their relative ubiquity, physical durability, and the literal brilliance of the daguerreotype and its homelier cousin the tintype.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018
  • 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
  • In Alternative Processes, Nelson uses archaic development techniques like tintype and Mordancage to create bizarre and beautiful abstractions.
    Taylor Glascock, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2016

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