Getting to Grips with your Photographic Collection: Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes and Tintypes

This video is part of the Scottish Council on Archives FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPHY Webinar Series "Getting to Grips with your Photographic Collection" which was held in 2021. It is designed for anyone with photographs in their collection. Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes (also called wet collodion positives) and tintypes are often treated as a group in photographic collections as they are distinct from the more common paper prints and film collections. This video looks at their characteristics, how they were made, how they were presented and the context in which the processes were used. It mentions common forms of deterioration and it finishes with a look at the work of a modern day wet collodion photographer, Jack Lowe.
In the next video we will look at photographic prints.
Timestamps:
00.00 Getting to Grips with your Photographic Collection: Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes and tintypes
03.06 Daguerreotypes
10.25 Ambrotypes (wet collodion positives)
15.52 Tintypes
17.48 Jack Lowe, a modern day wet collodion photographer
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You can find out more about more about preservation in my booklet for the British Library, "Preservation of Photographic Material".
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There is also a Scottish version of the booklet, which includes a foreword about photography in the Scottish context by Dr Sara Stevenson, formerly Chief Curator of Photography for the National Galleries of Scotland.
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Thank you... I found your breakdown of these different photographic processes very thorough and understandable! I especially appreciated learning a bit more about how to preserve and conserve these valuable artifacts. I have dozens of them from my family, ranging from the 1850s to the 1910s, and now I know more about how to identify which they are!