ambrotype
- Term Type
Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Preferred Term
ambrotype
- Details
A variant of the wet collodion process to produce a direct-positive camera original. The collodion is coated on glass, the image underexposed and then underdeveloped, the glass backed with black lacquer or black cloth, and the whole mounted in a case or frame. Occasionally, the image was made on ruby glass.
- Variations
ambrotype process