collodion process

noun

, Photography.

1. wet plate process.

Word History and Origins

Origin of collodion process¹

First recorded in 1865–60

Example Sentences

She made them with the 19th-century wet-plate collodion process.

From New York Times

He produced more than 120 glass plate negatives using the wet collodion process which required him to travel with a portable laboratory.

From BBC

The wet collodion process, which was invented in 1851, gave photographers the ability to make direct contact prints from a glass negative.

From Time

Looking at the images, John Ravenal, who organized her 2010 survey “Sally Mann: The Flesh and the Spirit” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, was struck by how Ms. Mann choose not to use her signature wet-plate collodion process, which typically gives her images a high degree of distortion and painterly sensuality.

From New York Times

Throughout this time, he used the collodion process, a photographic method that required optimal lighting, subjects who held perfectly still, and great deftness on the part of the photographer, who had to prepare each plate with a series of chemicals, calculate the exposure time, and then develop images on the spot.

From The New Yorker