Ambrotypes (photographs)
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Visual and Verbal Communication (Hierarchy Name) > Visual Works (Hierarchy Name) > visual works > <visual works by material or technique> > photographs > <photographs by form> > positives (photographs) > direct positives
Descripción
Photographs produced by mounting a negative (made by a variant of the wet collodion process) that is on glass with a dark backing, which makes the image appear as a positive. Came into wide use in the United States in the early 1850s.
URI original del concepto
Otros términos
- ambrotypieën [nl]
- ambrotipos [es]
- ambrotype (photograph) [en]
- collodion glass positives [en]
- collodion-glass positives [en]
- glass-collodion positives [en]
- glass positives, collodion [en]
- positives, collodion glass [en]
- positives, glass-collodion [en]
- ambrotypie [nl]
- ambrotipo [es]