15+ Rare Photos Of Victorians Proving They Weren’t As Serious As You Thought

Although many of these works are not limited to a single face or figure, and some are viewable only at a distance, their aim was to pictorialize Christianity in personal form, and therefore should be regarded as part of the portrait genre. Along these lines, it can be argued that photography is a subjective form of representation. Portrait artists also depicted revered historical human figures. It was made from highly flammable nitrocellulose " celluloid " , now usually called " nitrate film ". There are three subsets to the collodion process; the Ambrotype a positive image on glass , the Ferrotype or Tintype a positive image on metal and the glass negative, which was used to make positive prints on albumen or salted paper. Monochrome printing or electronic display can be used to salvage certain photographs taken in color which are unsatisfactory in their original form; sometimes when presented as black-and-white or single-color-toned images they are found to be more effective.