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How to Shoot a Tintype Backdrop to Create an Effective Illusion of Being Outdoors
Tintype Studio with Twig Chair and Posing Clamp
Tintype collection Jim Linderman
GOOD DOGS Three Tintype Photographs of Man's and Woman's and Dog's Best Friends collection Jim Linderman
The author's book THE PAINTED BACKDROP: BEHIND THE SITTER IN AMERICAN TINTYPE PHOTOGRAPHS is available in Ebook for iPad now, $5.99 HERE
Tintype Occupational An Actor
Tintype Photograph circa 1870 Collection Jim Linderman
A Tintype GHOST collection Jim Linderman
A tintype ghost. "A bad Victorianish" painted backdrop has through wear become a ghastly apparition over this bloke's shoulder!
I spent five years looking "behind the sitter" in every tintype I could find putting together my book titled "The Painted Backdrop" available in easy $5.99 ebook form, ahem, HERE. I still can't break the habit. Which is fine, as the backdrops are often far more interesting than the people. In this case, particularly so.
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Waterfalls of Tin Tintype Backdrops of Drops of Water
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Group of Tintype Photographs, circa 1870 - 1890 Collection Jim Linderman
Who Moved the Anvil? Blacksmith Occupational Tintype
Tintype photograph circa 1870 of a Blacksmith with his anvil, hammer and a horseshow. What I want to know is if he moved the anvil to the photgrapher's studio, or if the cameraman moved his machine to the blacksmith?
Original Tintype Photograph circa 1870 Collection Jim Linderman
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Cartoon Tintype "Stick your Head Here" Man on a Mule collection Jim Linderman
Humorous "cartoon" tintype of one Frank Mason of Jackson, Michigan poses inside a painting of mule circa 1875. A "put your head in here" fun photo, but Frank is is a bad mood.
Frank Mason (inscribed on reverse) circa 1875 Tintype photograph collection Jim Linderman
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Empty Chair Tintype with Nobody In It
Yep! A tintype of an empty chair. Circa 1870 Collection Jim Linderman
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Dog with a Basket Tintype Good BOY! Collection Jim Linderman
Original tintype photograph, circa 1880, Collection Jim Linderman
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Prize Winners! Females Finish in First Place Tinted Tintype photograph collection Jim Linderman
Prize winners Tintype Photograph circa 1880 Collection Jim Linderman
Two Fiddlers Fiddling Tintype collection Jim Linderman Ferrotype
A fine pair of fiddlers Tintype circa 1870 Collection Jim Linderman
Fat Man Tintype Circus Sideshow or Just a Large Man? Collection Jim Linderman
Certainly the largest man I've ever seen fit onto a tintype. Sideshow performer or just portly?
Tintype circa 1870 collection Jim Linderman
Tintype Dog with Considerable Eyebrows Tintype Photograph collection Jim Linderman
A real pair of eyebrows on this li'l fellow. Perched on a birch stand, man's best friend.
Tintype with Glasses Hand-Painted Bespeckled Bas Bleu
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A considerable step beyond tinting, and one of those painted tintypes in which the embellishment is far more extraordinary then the sitter. A Full-Size plate, 6.5" x 8.5 and found in one of those ungodly fat frames which is now in the basement.
Untitled (Woman with Painted Gold Glasses) circa 1880 Ferrotype Tintype Photograph Collection Jim Linderman
Man Down ! Reclining Man Tintype collection Jim Linderman
Too bad we can't read the paper in shocked man's hand.
Original Tintype photograph, circa 1880 Collection Jim Linderman
Paint Me a Beard Hand-painted Tintype Ferrotype collection Jim Linderman
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Embellished by hand, whiskers extreme!
Hand-painted Half-Plate Tintype circa 1890 Collection Jim Linderman
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Folk Art Painted Tintype Ferrotype Hand-Painted Means of Production and the Consumer
A circa 1880 hand-painted tintype. It is remarkable to consider the photographic process which resulted in an actual unique physical object one could hold, paint by hand and frame has gone from black and white to gone in two or three lifetimes. I haven't quite figured it out yet, but the warmth of an image may have gone with the film.
As far as the public goes, each step forward in the photographic process helped the producer become more effective (and profit more) while leaving the consumer holding less of a product in his hand. While it is an art, and it is progress... it is easy to view photography from a simple supply/demand capitalistic perspective. Dags, so beautiful and shimmering, an amazing thing folks will still circle to see at a show, turned to cruddy metal tintypes which were churned out like pizza at the shore in one lifetime.
It wasn't long before paper came and paper went. Instant photos followed and dropped the quality even further. Now the darkroom is empty and the bits and bytes which tore the guts out of reproduced music have done the same to pictures.
More and more recording artists are releasing their product once again on vinyl. As I understand it, digital music provides only a very small percentage of the aural quality not only possible, but once common. Once even standard. The consumer loses but pays more for it than ever before.
What is yet to be fully understood is what we have lost in pictures. Is the photo above particularly beautiful or desirable? Nope, not at all. But you could hold it in your hands.
"Full Plate" tintype (ferrotype) painted by hand circa 1880. Collection Jim Linderman
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Civil War Amputee Tintype Photograph and a Naive Dream
The first amputee of the Civil War was James Edward Hanger, an unfortunate 18-year-old who promptly commenced carving his own replacement leg out of wood scraps. Three months later he was walking down the stairs on an artificial leg of his own construction which hinged at the knee.
His invention not only made him rich, the Hanger company he founded to help other amputees is still doing the work, 150 years later.
The number of American soldiers who have undergone amputation surgery in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is well over 1,000, a horrendous figure, but one which pales compared to the Associated Press estimate of more than 100,000 civilian deaths in the conflict. I resided in Manhattan during 9/11 and even the cab drivers knew Iraq had nothing to do with it. They told me.
As an optimistic youth, I fully expected war to become obsolete after we left Vietnam. I am sorry I was so wrong, and that dream seems now more elusive than ever before.
Anonymous tintype photograph, circa 1870? Amputee and friends. Collection Jim Linderman.
Time for Your (Tintype) Profile collection Jim Linderman
Post "light" today as I'm working on a project. Photographers adopted the "frontal" portrait style from traveling limners I suppose, but once in a while someone knew their better side. A nice example of a young gent who would not face the camera.
Tintype Photograph, circa 1900 Collection Jim Linderman
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