Collodion Wet Plate

Glossary

A nineteenth-century method of producing photographic negatives using a glass plate coated with a silver emulsion. While relatively inexpensive and enabling quick exposure times, this method required the entire process from plate preparation to developing to be completed within fifteen minutes, making it unsuitable for portable photography.

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Collodion Wet Plate%newline%A nineteenth-century method of producing photographic negatives using a glass plate coated with a silver emulsion. While relatively inexpensive and enabling quick exposure times, this method required the entire process from plate preparation to developing to be completed within fifteen minutes, making it unsuitable for portable photography.

Chicago	MAP Academy Encyclopedia of Art. “Collodion Wet Plate”. Accessed April 27, 2024. https://mapacademy.io/glossary/wet-plate-collodion/
MLA	“Collodion Wet Plate.” MAP Academy Encyclopedia of Art. https://mapacademy.io/glossary/wet-plate-collodion/. Accessed 27, April, 2024.
Harvard	MAP Academy Encyclopedia of Art. (2022) Collodion Wet Plate. [Online]. Available at: https://mapacademy.io/glossary/wet-plate-collodion/. (Accessed: 27, April, 2024)