Frozen in Iron

Résumé du livre

Tintypes are doubtless the most ubiquitous of all nineteenth century photographs. Like daguerreotypes before them, they are one of a kind images. Yet tintypes have never garnered the same high status among collectors as the far more famous "mirror with a memory." In fact, tintypes are so commonplace that remarkably little scholarship has been done of the subject of their origin or social implications. However, in recent years, connoissership of tintypes as art objects has greatly improved to the extent that at least a handful of collectors have actually begun to specialize in "tins"--Introduction