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Collodion process

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(Photog.) a process in which a film of sensitized collodion is used in preparing the plate for taking a picture.

See also: Collodion



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The wet-plate collodion process can be employed to create negatives for making multiple, albumen-paper prints, but the process can also result in an "ambrotype," an antique image medium that Gerlach adores.
The collodion process used a glass plate negative that could transfer the image to albumen paper.
Mann seamlessly combines images made from more traditional photographic methods with those made using the nineteenth-century wet-plate collodion process.
 
 
 
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