Tintypes were the instant photographs of the 19th Century. Nearly 100 years before Polaroid’s first instant film cameras were released in 1948, the tintype process was developed in 1853. The technique requires the photographic material to be coated, exposed and developed by a photographer on site processed immediately after exposure, which helped tintypes to catch on because the entire process was fast and economical. Within a few minutes, subjects with some pocket change could leave a session with an image.
Attendees will hear from the North Texas-based photographers behind "Project Barbatype," which is a collection of striking, memorable portraits of the bearded men – and women – who compete in the international circuit of Beard and Mustache competitions. Traveling to four or five competitions each year, Scott Hilton and Bryan Wing use a mobile tintype set-up to render their hirsute subjects immortal with “the alchemy of authentic hand-made 19th century tintype photography, fixed for all time, that future generations might view their majestic visage.”
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