ambrotype
- noun
- /ˈæmbrəˌtaɪp/
- Archaic
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ambrotipo
- O'Kelley, like many photographers of the mid-1850s, was ridding himself of daguerreotype equipment and changing to the ambrotype.
- ambrotypes and tintypes
- daguerreotypes and ambrotypes
Examples
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The ambrotype (1855-1870), often mistaken for a daguerreotype, is also usually found in a case.
Academic text (2000) -
From top left, clockwise: Ambrotype cased image, cabinet card, carte de visite, tintype, Kodak print of about 1910.
Academic text (2000) -
Ferrum is Latin for iron, which is a less expensive, less fragile alternative to the ambrotype (glass).
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In 1864, Marcus A. Root, in The Camera and the Pencil, expanded the details for coloring the ambrotype and the paper cartes de visite.
Academic text (2008) -
In sixty-one, any soldier with a dollar and seventy-five cents could have his aspect recorded in the form of ambrotype, tintype, calotype, or daguerreotype.
Fiction book (1997) -
It is from Gurney that Columbus photographer Andrew Jackson Riddle purchased, in 1857, the rights to produce and sell in Georgia the hallotype, a type of colored ambrotype with a "three-dimensional" effect.
Academic text (2008) -
An old ambrotype of her great-grandfather reveals the fashion of the 1800s.
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The ambrotype captures a moment in time, preserving details that would fade away if not for the glass plate.
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Collectors prize ambrotypes for their historical significance and unique photographic technique.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ambrotype comes from the Greek ambrotos meaning 'immortal' and the ending -type meaning 'image' or 'impression'. That gives a simple memory: an 'immortal image' on glass, which fits an ambrotype being an early photograph made as a positive on a glass plate.
