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SAGA Awardee Brian Deemy from Spokane Tintype Studio

Brian Deemy from Spokane Tintype Studio has recieved a Spokane Arts Grant Award, which will allow him to offer classes here in spokane where students and subjects will be able to step through a time capsule, sit in front of a 115 year old camera, and see their image reflected in a process dating back to the Civil War.

The Wet Plate Collodion process, more commonly know as “tintype”, is a process predating film by thirty years. The process, introduced in 1851, involves making and pouring photographic emulsion onto a metal or glass substrate, placing that plate directly into the camera, and developing it by means that create a positive image directly onto the plate.

More information about Brian and SAGA grants at SpokaneArts.org

 

Chris Maccini previously worked at SPR as Morning Edition host and producing arts and special programming such as The Bookshelf, Poetry Moment, Northwest Arts Review, special features and more.