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tintype

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Definition of tintype

as in daguerreotype

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Recent Examples of tintype The image could be a tintype from a late-Victorian play about a confidence man who preys on wealthy young widows. — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 14 July 2025 The tintype format was introduced by chemist and physicist Hamilton Smith in 1856. — Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025 Also on display is a tintype of an unidentified African American woman, taken by an unidentified artist around 1865. — Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025 This is especially evident as the show builds from format to format—including tintypes, ambrotypes, paper prints, and stereographs, each an improvement on the last where the maker’s control was concerned. — Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 24 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for tintype

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Also, if one coats the surface of a daguerreotype with a layer of gold, the colors shift more to the red side of the spectrum.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 27 Oct. 2026
Robert Ebendorf’s 2010 Untitled Daguerreotype Brooch combines a daguerreotype with copper, plastic, and a crab claw, while his Birthday Necklace incorporates repurposed jewelry and toy railroad tracks.

— Livia Caligor, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of daguerreotype

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At a local senior residence center this week, the participants hummed with lindens and then headed into the art room to reflect on paper, using sepia-brown linden ink.

— Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Oct. 2026
Tuscan kitchens were all warm colors, shades of brown, images that were maybe a bit sepia toned.

— Jenny Hughes, The Spruce, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of sepia

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Officials ask people to provide clear, close-up photographs with an object for scale, such as a pencil.

— Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Its design also features family photographs, pizza-pan-inspired decor and reference to the Malnati family’s legacy and Chicago roots.

— Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of photograph

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Until then, here are some photos from Sunday evening’s game in the Pacific Northwest.

— Jeff Rosen, Kansas City Star, 26 Oct. 2026
Back in 2015, Oberacker posted a photo to Facebook on Veterans Day memorializing his late grandfather — in full Wehrmacht uniform — who’d died fighting for Nazi Germany.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of photo

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For the event, Mirren and her stylist Lee Harris created a monochrome pink look with a spotlight shone on a Martin Grant gown.

— Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 25 Oct. 2026
In contrast to the gorgeous monochrome visuals, this is a land that stinks of complicity and delusion — of opportunists desperate to scramble onto the right side of history.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

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