Gallery Talk & Demonstration with Tintype Photographer Craig Murphy

Upstate New York photographer Craig Murphy brings his traveling tintype studio to the Cahoon Museum for a lecture and a live demonstration of this historic photographic process.

Murphy will discuss the early history of photography, how this seemingly magical process spurred the imagination of artists and engineers, and share his first-hand knowledge learned from using historical methods to capture images. He will do a live demonstration of how a tintype was created, from exposure to development, exactly as it would have happened in the 1860s.

Murphy specializes in 19^th century photographic processes including tintypes, ambrotypes, and the wet plate collodion process. He travels with his mobile tintype studio making portrait and scenic images, including landscapes in the Hudson Valley and Adirondacks.