Working Stiffs: Occupational Portraits in the Age of Tintypes
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Working Stiffs: Occupational Portraits in the Age of Tintypes
Customer reviews (9)
17 June 2015I'd have liked a larger format so the pics could have been ...
Interesting photos and comments; I'd have liked a larger format so the pics could have been bigger.
19 May 2015Even though it is small it has a lot of good information on the subjects and photographers in general
I have read several other books on the subject and found this one to be as interesting if not more so.
27 September 2014Five Stars
An interesting book showing a part of history not often seen..
16 March 2013The Art of the Photographer, 19th Century Style Speaks Today
Among the most poignant relics left to us by preceding generations are the old photographs, snapshots, daguerreotypes, and tintypes bearing their all too often forgotten faces.
11 March 2013Proud working men and women
According to photography historian Michael Carlebach, tintypes were despised by arty, expensive photographers of the time and still by critics of the present.
9 March 2013A nice work on tintypes
I chose this book because I was looking for something not to \"heavy\" to learn more about tintypes, and for its reasonable price.
1 March 2013Fascinating Glimpse of a Once-Popular Photographic Process!
Tintype photography, which flourished beginning in the 1850s, was a short-lived but very popular photographic process that provided working class Americans easy access to cheap, durable imagery.
14 April 2005Important Photographs
This book is worth the purchase for the images alone.
18 February 2004JUNK
As best as I can tell, he bought some tintypes on eBay, showed them to some people at the Smithsonian Instiution to help figure out what the people in the pictures were doing and wrote it up.