Tintype Photography using the "Wet Plate Process"
Maker Faire Bay Area 2016
May 20th-22nd
This is our third year at the Makers Faire. We present Frederick Scott Archer's Tintype photography process that he developed in 1850. 99% of all photos made during the Civil War and up to 1900 used his "Wet Plate Process". We use his same chemicals, cameras, backdrop and "portable Photo Booth ".
Bruce Morton
The photographer, Bruce Morton, has studied antique photography at the Eastman House in Rochester, New York with Mark Osterman and his wife France; Both are consider Master Photographers and experts in the field of antique Photography. Bruce went on and also studied with John Coffer, the father of the Wet Plate Process and has been teaching and working with this antique process since the 1960's.
