Mammoth tintypes and the magic of the meniscus
Yesterday I attended a rare demo of the 19th-century tintype photographic process by photographer Nathaniel Gibbons at (or at least just outside) Gallery Kayafas, where Gibbons’ “Mammoth Plate Tintypes” are on display.
For those of you who are not civil war re-enactors, it’s worth mentioning that the tintype process was popular in the mid to late 19th Century as a rela ...

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