Photography Ambrotypes: Young African American-Native American Man

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Identifier

6149436645470055-Ambrotype Young African American-Native American Man.jpg

Description

Image of a young man with tinted rosy cheeks. The image is an ambrotype that has been mounted in a decorative case. An ambrotype is created as a positive image on a sheet of glass using the wet plate collodian process. The result is an image consisting of a negative, usually underexposed. It is mounted against a dark background, then mounted in a case. An ambrotype, unlike the daguerreotype, can be seen from all angles.

Rights

Digital Image (c) 2011 Earnestine Jenkins Collection of African American-African Diaspora Photographs. All rights reserved. No unauthorized duplication or transmission permitted. Contact the rights holder: Arts & Visual Cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora, Department of Art, University of Memphis.

Recommended Citation

"Photography Ambrotypes: Young African American-Native American Man" (2021). Earnestine Jenkins Collection of Historical African American-African Diaspora Photographs. 10.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-exhibit-ejenkins/10