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Recent Examples of tintype
This is especially evident as the show builds from format to format—including tintypes, ambrotypes, paper prints, and stereographs, each an improvement on the last where the maker’s control was concerned.
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Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
Lifestyle Hauntingly beautiful tintype photos memorialize what was lost in Altadena
April 30, 2025
Tell us about your outfit.
—Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
To a visitor’s eye, the light switch is nowhere to be found—that is, until a tintype photograph is plucked from a ledge near the front door to reveal a white plastic switch plate.
—Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 1 May 2025
Around since the 1850s, tintype photography captures a still image on a thin metal plate coated with dark lacquer or enamel.
—Marah Eakin, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025
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Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
Lifestyle Hauntingly beautiful tintype photos memorialize what was lost in Altadena
April 30, 2025
Tell us about your outfit.
—Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
To a visitor’s eye, the light switch is nowhere to be found—that is, until a tintype photograph is plucked from a ledge near the front door to reveal a white plastic switch plate.
—Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 1 May 2025
Around since the 1850s, tintype photography captures a still image on a thin metal plate coated with dark lacquer or enamel.
—Marah Eakin, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tintype
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The daguerreotype of John C. Calhoun was what led Shumard to hunt down other early prints in the museum’s collections.—
Kaila Philo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 June 2025
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Not everyone could make a daguerreotype, but nearly everyone could own one.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
24 May 2025
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In the back storeroom of the Olivera Egg Ranch in San Jose, Ed Olivera Jr., 76, gazed at miniature sepia and grey-tone photographs in an album splayed open on a long steel table.—
Jia H. Jung,
The Mercury News,
22 Feb. 2025
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The mono photo in our suite was a little brown rather than neutral gray, but not by as much as a standard sepia print.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
5 June 2025
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Newman and Curtin also were responsible for one of the night's most moving moments, holding up a photograph of the late Gilda Radner during the cast's goodbyes at the end of the show.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
24 July 2025
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On October 16, 1994, the Los Angeles Times ran a photograph of the protests against the ballot initiative, showing Cesar Chavez Avenue, named after the co-founder of the United Farm Workers union, jam-packed with Angelenos flying Mexican flags.—
Geraldo Cadava,
New Yorker,
23 July 2025
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Coupled with modern photos of addicts struggling with addiction, Flischel uses Hearn’s words to create a harrowing account, something common throughout the pages of his historical photo book.—
Otto Rabe,
The Enquirer,
27 July 2025
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Halfway through the credits of 2020's Hubie Halloween, those behind the film incorporated a photo of Boyce alongside a touching message.—
Brenton Blanchet,
People.com,
26 July 2025
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Every type of Christmas ornament works with this style: Gather around the tree to decorate it in monochrome, all-white, or a colorful mix of every hue.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
19 July 2025
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Although nineteenth-century photography might be commonly associated with a somber, monochrome world of stiff portraits and slightly dull landscapes, the decades after photography’s introduction in 1839 were also a time of bold innovation.—
Anika Burgess
July 17,
Literary Hub,
17 July 2025
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“Tintype.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tintype. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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