The ambrotype, a photographic process invented in the 1850s, took its name from the Greek for “immortal” or “imperishable.” An underdeveloped positive on coated glass, the ambrotype image assumed full ...

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes Kaila Philo Photography is an art that often gets taken ...

Many collectors of antique photographs are interested in three types of early 19th-century photography: the daguerreotype, the ambrotype and the tintype. In the early 1800s, Louis Jacques Mandé ...

Fascinating early experimental photos showing children enjoying the British summertime in 1856 have come to light. The rare ambrotype images reveal an immaculately dressed boy in a suit and bow tie, ...