For other images by Kim DeLise:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/k-bella
The wet plate collodion process was the leading mode of photography
in the 1850's and 1860's. Ambrotypes are positive images exposed
onto blackened glass; tintypes are made the same way but onto
blackened metal.* The process is called wet plate because the plate
must be sensitized, exposed and developed all while the plate is
wet. The finished plates are one-of-kind three-dimensional objects.
I first learned the wet plate process from Eric Taubman and Keliy
Anderson-Staley at The Center for Alternative Photography
(www.capworkshops.org) where I work when I'm not working at T.R.E.C.
Rental. As a teacher's assistant, I help instructors at CAP conduct
workshops and get a first hand look at how to make photographs using
alternative processes. I made these plates during one of the wet
plate collodion workshops. As a student of the wet plate collodion
process, I am learning all of the intricacies of making plates
(estimating time exposures and trouble shooting when a plate doesn't
come out quite right). I am excited to continue to develop as a wet
plate photographer and make more plates!
*Keliy Anderson-Staley's wet plate description from website
(www.andersonstaley.com)
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