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Ambrotype

Scope note

A variant of the wet collodion process to produce a direct-positive camera original. The collodion is coated on glass, the image underexposed and then underdeveloped, the glass backed with black lacquer or black cloth, and the whole mounted in a case or frame. Occasionally, the image was made on ruby glass.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000137324

Broader Terms used

wet collodion process

Term used for

ambrotype process

Equivalent Terms used

ambrotypes

Created

12yrs ago

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