as in daguerreotype
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Recent Examples of tintype
Neither Drew nor Janisse could believe the 9-year-old boy’s resemblance to his ancestor in that black-and-white tintype photo.
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Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
Passages Radcliffe Bailey, an artist whose sculptural assemblages included his grandmother’s tintypes, and who chronicled the narratives of Black life, has died at 54.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2023
In 2014, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D. C. acquired a tintype portrait.
—Nora Mathison, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
But that tintype stands as a testament, not just to the life of Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser, but to this small cohort of Black women who, in a fortuitous moment in history, became doctors just after the Civil War.
—Nora Mathison, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
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Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
Passages Radcliffe Bailey, an artist whose sculptural assemblages included his grandmother’s tintypes, and who chronicled the narratives of Black life, has died at 54.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2023
In 2014, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D. C. acquired a tintype portrait.
—Nora Mathison, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
But that tintype stands as a testament, not just to the life of Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser, but to this small cohort of Black women who, in a fortuitous moment in history, became doctors just after the Civil War.
—Nora Mathison, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tintype
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The 1846 daguerreotype, which captured her in her 70s, is by photographer John Plumbe Jr., who would also create the earliest extant image of the U.S. Capitol in 1846.—
Roger Catlin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Dec. 2024
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But in a world where the spread of technology makes photo manipulation as easy as a tap on your phone, the idea that a visual image is an absolute truth is as outdated as the daguerreotype.—
Deepti Hajela,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Mar. 2024
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China's ambition to be the world's greatest space power is taking it to the Moon, to other planets—and to the sepia dust of Chile's Atacama Desert.—
Didi Kirsten Tatlow,
Newsweek,
18 Dec. 2024
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The Weeknd’s maze at Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights has an unsettling cocaine-freak-out energy that is a welcome counterbalance to mazes’ sepia tones and textbook monsters.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2024
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This black-and-white photograph is of students in a classroom at Naperville High School in the late 1920s, only about a decade after the school was established in 1916.—
Naperville Sun,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Jan. 2025
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Sporting a long beard and hair, Packer is seen in one photograph on a cellphone as other people assemble behind him on the steps of the Capitol.—
Josh Meyer,
USA TODAY,
23 Jan. 2025
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The woman says she was eventually permitted to use her cell phone and text family members, who sent her a photo of her Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB), and she was then allowed to leave, Hatathlie said.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN,
27 Jan. 2025
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Click here for more photos of the one-off 1986 Audi 5000 CS Quattro prototype.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
27 Jan. 2025
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But before today’s bulky overcoats, the navy suits and monochrome ties, there were Mr. Washington’s inaugural vestments, as welcome and surprising as democracy itself.—
Alexander Nazaryan,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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The model usually wears a chic and simple monochrome look, leather boots, and trenches.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Tintype.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tintype. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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