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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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First observed on Aug 19, 1991, the day commemorates the invention of the daguerreotype, a photographic process developed in 1837.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
30 July 2025
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And the massive collection of photographic plates the Harvard Computers used in their work began with a July 17, 1850 daguerreotype of the star Vega.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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So just like in Impressionist paintings and old sepia photos, Parisians can once again cool off in their river.—
Eleanor Beardsley,
NPR,
13 Aug. 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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More details and our photographs of the event are below.—
Matthew Buzzi,
PC Magazine,
14 Aug. 2025
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That is the title of a striking piece of artwork hung high above the London skyline, depicting a brooding photograph of Mikel Arteta marking out something that looked like stream-of-consciousness ideas in black paint.—
Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2025
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In the photos, Thompson is seen playing baseball alongside his family and friends — and in one photo, poses in the dugout with his arm around Megan, 30.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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There was only a slim reason to think such a photo might exist.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
7 Aug. 2025
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In the past, archaeologists have only been able to see poor-quality, monochrome interpretations of the tattoos on the mummies based on drawings, leaving out both the intricate designs as well as the techniques used to create them, according to the study.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
31 July 2025
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Her outfits strike the perfect balance of casual and cute—and this monochrome moment is easy to recreate.—
Jessica Kasparian,
SELF,
31 July 2025
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“Tintype.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tintype. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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