Tintype Portraits with Cole Phillips
Sat Jan 6, 2024 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Mayo Street Arts, 04101
Tintype Portraits with Cole Phillips
Sat Jan 6, 2024 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Mayo Street Arts, 04101
Description
Take a step back in time and have your tintype portrait made on-site by Cole Phillips!
Using materials and processes dating to the 1850s, wet-plate photography gives you the chance to experience and take home a memento of one of the oldest known photographic processes.
Tintypes date back to the 1850s and replaced then-industry-standard daguerreotype photography as an alternative photographic process which created more stable and easily visible results. Throughout the late-middle 19th century, tintypes were used to document everything from the American Civil War, and political figures of the time, all the way down to working-class families and domestic pets. By the 1900s, the process had been all but replaced by the rapidly growing alternative processes of the time and had become a novelty. Today, it is preserved and practiced by those who are unwilling to see it fade into time.
Bundle up, because tintypes require natural light and the photographs will be taken outdoors! In the case of inclement weather, Polaroid portraits will be taken indoors.
Payment will be made directly to the artist. Pricing: 4" x 5" portrait ($40); 5" x 7" portrait ($70); 8" x 10" portrait ($150).
This photography event is in celebration of Puppetkabob's The Snowflake Man, an antique truck show featuring Czech-style marionettes. The matinée performance of "The Snowflake Man" will take place at 2:00 PM, immediately following the Tintype pop-up.
The puppet show tells the tale of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley-- the self-educated farmer and scientist-- attracted worldwide attention in 1885 by adapting a bellows camera to a compound microscope. Bentley became the first person to capture the image of a single snow crystal.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Cole Phillips is a wet-plate photographer and writer living in Maine with his family. Across genre, his work has appeared in Fence, Hobart, Juked, Post Road, Green Mountains Review, Olney Magazine, and elsewhere. His work has been most recently exhibited in Portland, ME for the Bakery Photo Collective. He is the author of Love as the Difference Separating Us (Bottlecap Press), a photo essay on the history of Maine's ghost town, Swan Island.
COVID-19 POLICY
Mayo Street Arts no longer requires audience members attending public events to wear masks. Audience members who feel sick—whether due to COVID or any other illness—should stay home out of respect for others.
Location
Mayo Street Arts, 04101