NYT does a tinotype fashion shoot

[morgan]

This is pretty cool. They did a fashion shoot with tinotypes to illustrate the current fascination with 19th century menswear. They even have a slideshow about the photographic process. Very nice, period-looking images that match the content.

Fashion shots: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/11/11/fashion/20091112-codes-slideshow_index.html

Tinotype process slideshow:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/11/11/style/20091112-tin-slideshow_index.html

 

[Muggins]

Oooooooh, wet collodion is something I've always wanted to try (possibly because of the possibilities of getting smashed on guncotton and ether...).

The first modern image reminds me very much of a well-known Victorian photo of a brooding male, looking very modern in itself, and I just can't think of who it is/was by. Any ideas?

Adrian

PS You've got a buckshee "o" in your tintypes...

 

[shadowfox]

Yep, there's pla'tino'-type and there's tin-type.

These are wet-collodion often referred to as tin-type.

I applaud the fashion business to have a keen artistic eye to take advantage of an old photographic process like this.

For those who are interested, here's another set of videos on how one is made:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/bestvintage/multimedia_vid2.html

 

[chut]

That is very cool. And my friends think my shooting black and white film is anachronistic.

I believe the Ron Howard film 'The Missing' depicted a photographer who was shooting tintypes as well. He got killed though for taking a lousy photo of the evil brujo.

 

[Paul T.]

THanks for this. I think I'll buy me a plaid overcoat...

 

[vdonovan]

U 2 can be a highly-paid NYT fashion photog

U 2 can be a highly-paid NYT fashion photog

The Rayko Photography Center in San Francisco has classes and field workshops in both tintype and daguerrotype wet processes. The field workshops use Rayko's awesome custom-made darkroom trailer.

http://raykophoto.com/?page_id=32

 

[Muggins]

DAGUERROTYPES!

*Follows scream by swooning*

OH. My. God. Probably a good job I'm on the wrong side of the pond!

Adrian

 

[shadowfox]

The Rayko Photography Center in San Francisco has classes and field workshops in both tintype and daguerrotype wet processes. The field workshops use Rayko's awesome custom-made darkroom trailer.

http://raykophoto.com/?page_id=32

Just a side comment,
while I am glad that there are still places that offers classes on alt. processing, spending $175 just to learn how to do cyanotypes are a bit excessive to me.

A good dose of reading and a ready-made kit cost less than half of that.

 

[morgan]

THanks for this. I think I'll buy me a plaid overcoat...

Ha! I know. I've never wanted a wool vest so badly before.

 

[aizan]

the models are really hamming it up. =(

 

[dexdog]

I think that this guy fits into the fashion shoot quite well. I am sure that the distressed flannel shirt that he is modeling would sell for $750 or so (manacles not included)

http://thinkorthwim.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/450manacled-sweater-001.png

 

[Muggins]

A vaguely related observation. Here in the UK, tintypes are practically unknown. Ambrotypes - an under-exposed negative on glass with a piece of black material behind to make it appear positive - and other pics-on-glass variations are relatively common, as are variations of prints mounted on cardboard which were turned out in the millions, but I've yet to see a genuine tintype, and the ambrotype and its ilk were dead here long before tintypes died in the US.

Wet collodion was generally used by British photographers (I won't say "over here", as Francis Frith did some particularly famous work in Egypt in the 1840s and '50s) to produce negatives which could then be contact printed. And one thing I bet not many American tintypers did - we used teapots to pour the collodion. It's a Brit thing, old thing.

Adrian