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American Tintype from Matt Morris Films on Vimeo.Checking in my Vimeo channel, I noticed this wonderful short documentary picked by its staff about Harry Taylor who discovered a passion for the 150-year-old craft of tintype photography.There are also remarkable samples of his craft on his tintype gallery, which I urge you to visit.The ICP website describes tintype as: "One of the most intriguing and little studied forms of nineteenth-century photography. Introduced in 1856 as a low-cost alternative to the daguerreotype and the albumen print, the tintype was widely marketed from the 1860s through the first decades of the twentieth century as the cheapest and most popular photographic medium." And Wikipedia defines it as a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a sheet of iron metal...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Is Travel Photography Dying...or Dead?
Image Copyright © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedA few days ago Heather Jacobsen of hk imagery and a reader of TTP, asked me whether I thought that travel photography was dead...she had heard that statement from many in the industry, and was interested to know my view. Well, here it is: I do not subscribe to the notion that �travel� photography is dead. It has evolved...and I mean really evolved...not a progressive kind of evolution, but it changed with a relative abruptness that left many of those unprepared gasping for air...and not only was the change sudden, but it happened dynamically. The confluence of many factors contributed to the...
