FORT SUMNER, N.M. (KRQE) – It looks like a North Carolina man is holding a priceless piece of New Mexico history. Experts have verified a tintype picture bought for just dollars is that of Billy the ...

As a commercial photographer, Ian Ruhter never had time to photograph McGee Creek. But after he abandoned that work to make tintypes full time, he returned in 2013. In a time when photos are produced ...

Tintypes were the first form of photography to really allow the public to get a quick, inexpensive, and durable portrait. Debuting in the 1850s, they peaked during the Civil War, a popular method for ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: An untold number of unheralded artists live in Colorado, those creators who can’t (or don’t want to) get into galleries and rely on word of ...

Dale Bernstein has been working with the wet plate collodion process since the 1990s. His comfort level with this technique shows in the beautiful tintype portraits that have become his hallmark. The ...

A metallic plate is coated with light-reactive chemicals and placed into a camera The plate is exposed to light then quickly moved into a darkroom The plate is placed in a mixture of developer ...

In the wake of the Eaton fire, there are ghosts in Altadena. Not literal ghosts — though that could depend on whom you ask — but an army of figurative phantoms, like the lonely chimneys that mark the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A retired Wichita industrialist who collects everything from Wild West memorabilia to Picassos won the only surviving, authenticated portrait of Billy the ...

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James Franco poses for a tintype portrait during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival 2015, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP). Victoria Will SHARE Last year during Sundance Film ...