How to Use collodion in a Sentence

collodion

noun
  • Mann loves the mistakes, warts, and chanciness of collodion printing.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018
  • Hyatt mixed this collodion with camphor (derived from the camphor tree) and found that the product was strong yet moldable.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The two men then moved to the dark room, where Mumler coated the plate with the syrupy collodion which would allow an image to form, and then to the sitting room.
    — Peter Manseau, Smithsonian, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Martin has practiced wet plate collodion photography for a decade, the Print Room said.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 21 June 2017
  • Gibbons used a 19th-century format, the wet-plate collodion process.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
  • Carefully balancing the plate on his hand, Gardner gently rotated it so the collodion flowed evenly across the surface, from edge to edge.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In the darkroom, an enlarger projected the positive slide onto a glass plate coated with collodion and silver nitrate.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Wet collodion is the same technique used by Matthew Brady to make his Civil War battlefield images and portraits.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 21 June 2017
  • Photographer Adrian Whipp is a master of the wet plate collodion process and will capture your grinning mugs in a tintype as timeless as your friendship.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Marie Claire, 5 May 2021
  • The wet-plate or collodion process that Gardner used had been around since 1851, and Gardner had mastered the technology.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Sacabo creates collaged and distorted photographic images with a wet collodion on metal process that dates back to the 19th century.
    — Sarah Bonnette, NOLA.com, 23 May 2018
  • Making tintypes also requires mixing chemicals that are as volatile as jet fuel and living with the smell of ether, an ingredient in the collodion used to develop the images.
    — Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The next hot new technology, wet-plate collodion emulsions, was not much better; the plates would dry out during the long exposures required to capture faint astronomical objects.
    — H.j. McCracken, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Ruhter’s images, rendered on massive sheets of aluminum and glass — sometimes up to 5-feet wide, are made using the collodion wet plate process that saw its heyday around the time of the Civil War.
    — Maxine Marshall, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Infants are born with a shiny, waxy layer of skin, called a collodion membrane, that sheds after the first two weeks of life, revealing skin under the membrane that is dark, tight, and split, similar to scales or extremely dry skin.
    — Amanda Mitchell, Allure, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The aspect ratio changes into a square format and the lensing feels reminiscent of 19th century wet plate collodion photography.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Beginning in 1851, daguerreotypy gave way to the wet collodion process, which made photography cheaper, faster, and reproducible.
    — Nancy West, The Atlantic, 19 July 2017
  • The same wet-plate collodion process allowed Matthew Brady and his army of photographers to document the horrors of combat for the first time ever during the Civil War.
    — Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Focusing strongly on her Gambian roots, as well as identity conflicts and spirituality, her photographs were often monochrome, and aged using an old-fashioned process called collodion tintype.
    — Clive Martin, CNN, 23 June 2017

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