Celebrity portraits are haunting when shot on an old tintype camera

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In 2014, portrait photographer Victoria Will arrived at Sundance Film Festival for the fourth time in her career with the intent of trying something different.

So she turned her temporary digital studio into a tintype photography studio and invited her celebrity subjects to experience a more old-fashioned portrait shoot

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Tintype photography was introduced in 1856 as a cheaper alternative to the daguerrotype, and remained a popular photographic medium through the early twentieth century

Will told Mashable that she discovered the method years ago at a photo festival thanks to a demonstration from the Penumbra Foundation, and knew that she'd be able to recreate the process herself. Read more...

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