Style1½ inches thick (3.75 cm) Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
AvailablityUsually ships within five business days. ArtistJ Nanian Platinum Member Collectioncyanotypes
Description back in the mid 1800s around the time of the american civil war, there were wet plate tintypes + ambrotypes. tintypes were made on blackened metal, ambrotypes were made the same way on glass. they were a 1 of a kind image, no negative and unable to be reproduced. in the late 1800s silver gelatin replaced collodion as a photographic medium. the tintypes ( ferrotypes ) i make are by using liquid silver emulsion coated myself on metal. i hand process the image in a special developer i created that reverses it. sometimes i hand color them, like i do with cyanotypes i make.this is one i made the other day.
J Nanian, Warwick, RI Member Since November 2007 Artist Statement Hello, I am a working photographer, who uses a variety of processes to make photographs. Most work here originates as a sheet of paper, glass metal or plastic that is coated with light sensitive materials. I use coffee as a film and paper developer. Some of the photographs you see here are made using a 200 year old process and the images are photographs that are unstable. Scanning them is the only way to preserve them. Other images here are cyanotypes, a process invented in the 1840s that uses 2 iron based compounds that convert to a stable image when in the presence of ultra violet light.