Photographer Uses 160-Year-Old Camera To Take Eerily Beautiful Portraits
Giles Clement is a contemporary photographer who likes to do things the old-fashioned way, because the Nashville-based creative makes eerily beautiful portraits uses camera equipment made in the 1800s.
“My tintype images are created using equipment made more than 160 years ago,” writes the photographer on his website. “from an era when cameras were made by craftsmen in small shops and lenses were designed using slide rules, experience and feel. The inherent flaws of these instruments lend themselves perfectly to my view of a beautifully imperfect world.”
Clement uses both tintype (a photograph taken as a positive on a thin tin plate) and ambrotype (an early type of photograph made by placing a glass negative against a dark background), two techniques that were popular in the 1850s and the 1860s, and as you can see from the pictures below, the end result is both haunting and arresting.
More info: Giles Clement | Facebook (h/t: mymodernmet)
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Awesome great job! The girl in the 3rd photo had fantastic lips. Of course the modern 👧
These look absolutely stunning! Not just the old camera photos themselves, but the way he poses them with the model, in the modern day photo. Now that's art!
I think ...why not create those cameras again obviously in a healthy way (x I sell those in low cost for all ppl...
They lost popularity when people figured out how to make photo paper. While these look really cool, they only last for a few years (even if kept in the dark). The chemicals just wear off too quickly to be anything more than a hobby/science project (which is what photography was for like 100 years).
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Ethereal. Looks as though you could just reach inside and touch the person within. Absolutely marvelous work.
fake: http://petapixel.com/2016/01/19/i-built-myself-a-16x20-inch-camera-in-10-hours/
Awesome great job! The girl in the 3rd photo had fantastic lips. Of course the modern 👧
These look absolutely stunning! Not just the old camera photos themselves, but the way he poses them with the model, in the modern day photo. Now that's art!
I think ...why not create those cameras again obviously in a healthy way (x I sell those in low cost for all ppl...
They lost popularity when people figured out how to make photo paper. While these look really cool, they only last for a few years (even if kept in the dark). The chemicals just wear off too quickly to be anything more than a hobby/science project (which is what photography was for like 100 years).
Load More Replies... Ethereal. Looks as though you could just reach inside and touch the person within. Absolutely marvelous work.
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