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tintype

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Definition of tintype

as in daguerreotype

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Recent Examples of tintype The image could be a tintype from a late-Victorian play about a confidence man who preys on wealthy young widows. — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 14 July 2025 The tintype format was introduced by chemist and physicist Hamilton Smith in 1856. — Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025 Also on display is a tintype of an unidentified African American woman, taken by an unidentified artist around 1865. — Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025 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. — Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 24 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for tintype

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Robert Ebendorf’s 2010 Untitled Daguerreotype Brooch combines a daguerreotype with copper, plastic, and a crab claw, while his Birthday Necklace incorporates repurposed jewelry and toy railroad tracks.

— Livia Caligor, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026
The Art Nouveau furniture, the 18th-century Worcester porcelain, and the photography collection (with daguerreotypes, Civil War albumen prints, 20th-century images, and portraits) all beg for your attention.

— Carolanne Griffith Roberts, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2026

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The general plan is to create the museum in the center of the first floor, potentially displaying antique cars owned by the city, along with photographs and paintings.

— Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026
His exhibition of some of its contents at Palo, in the East Village, keeps the focus of our attention on his black-and-white photographs, which hold it with a sense of ease that never undermines their moody soulfulness.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026

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Those signature sparkles have long been a fixture of the Princess of Wales‘s often pared back, though colorful and monochrome, royal wardrobe.

— Julia Teti, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
Sporting one of her signature monochrome looks—this time opting for a classic all-black outfit—Gomez stepped out in a pair of full-length ponte leggings that definitely can’t be mistaken for gym clothes.

— Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2026

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