The tintype, also known as a melainotype and a
ferrotype, changed even that, although interestingly the plates on which images were printed were cheap, thin metal and not tin.
We simply chose to print it as the original 2x3-inch
ferrotype plate was first published circa 1880.
Above is a
ferrotype of Lincoln, a forerunner of today's campaign buttons.
YOUR He designed and hand built the famous Aptus
Ferrotype cameras, used all over the world by while-you-wait photographers at seaside resorts, fetes and racetracks.
Quesinberry, CEO | President DonnaInk Publications, announced successful negotiation and acquisition of emergent author Bill Moorefield and his newest title, "Tin Tales." She states: “I have long had an interest in
Ferrotype or 'Tin' photography.
An article, "Early Photography" by Peter Johnson UE, provided an analysis of several emerging methods in photography from the daguerreotype to the Calotype or Talbotype, the Ambrotype, the Tintype or
Ferrotype and the Carte-de-Viste (Card Photography).
Jayne Hinds Bidaut s one-of-a-kind tintype or
ferrotype photograms likewise call attention to the tense intersection between life and death in the human analysis of the animal world.
With the introduction of a
ferrotype photo process, the likeness of a candidate was available to Abraham Lincoln's 1860 campaign.
Schimmelman (art history, Oakland U., Rochester, Michigan) traces the history of the tintype (also known as
ferrotype) in American photography from 1850- 1880 and its role in elevating photographic portrait art.