Abraham Lincoln by George Clark, ambrotype campaign pin, 1860. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. To mark the 2024 presidential election, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery ...

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes Kaila Philo Photography is an art that often gets taken ...

George Clark, ambrotype campaign pin of Abraham Lincoln after a portrait by Mathew B. Brady (1860) (all images courtesy the National Portrait Gallery) Daguerreotypes were the original means by which ...

Unidentified artist, "Untitled (woman with hair ribbon)" (undated), sixth-plate ambrotype. Smithsonian American Art Museum, the L. J. West Collection of Early American Photography, Museum purchase ...

Perhaps you’ve scrolled through the popular Tumblr, “My Daguerreotype Boyfriend,” subtitled “Where early photography meets extreme hotness.” The daguerreotype, which was invented in the 1830s and ...

The National Portrait Gallery traces early images of American leaders, from John Quincy Adams to Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln, William Judkins Thomson, half-plate ambrotype, 1858 Alice George - ...

"Untitled (Self-Portraits)", 2012. Unique collodion wet-plate positives on metal, with sandarac varnish. "Untitled (Self-Portraits)", 2012. Unique collodion wet-plate positives on metal, with sandarac ...

Last week I began a discussion of the oldest photographs, all of which were produced as encased images. The daguerreotype was the earliest of these: it was a positive photographic image on a copper ...

The contemporary daguerreotype series was funded by the Australian Research Council project ‘Capturing Foundational Australian Photography in a Globalising World’ DE200101322, and supported by the ...

To mark the presidential election of 2024, this exhibition presents daguerreotype and ambrotype portraits of eight men–from John Quincy Adams to Chester Arthur–who held the nation’s highest office ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These tiny, pocket-sized photographs look quite foreign to us today. Their mirror-like surfaces make their subjects appear ...