Frustrated by the ease with which digital photos can be taken and doctored, some artists are kicking it old school: They’ve revived wet plate collodion photography, a medium invented and popular ...

Collodion portraits and landscape images have fine details but appear dark and moody — even haunting or ghostly. "The aesthetic is kind of a half-remembered dream," says Jacobson. The process involves ...

Let's imagine that you're hiking with friends to the summit of a nearby mountain or hill, and you'd like to capture the excursion on film. Today, you would just need carry along a small camera — the ...

It's messy, smelly and easy to stuff up but photographer Steve Lovegrove loves every minute of it. He's embraced the art of wet plate collodion photography, a method developed and used in the 1800s ...

The amazing result combines old and new. When it comes to iPhoneography, “retro” usually refers to adding some light leaks, desaturating some colors or adding fake grain. But for Jake Potts, it means ...

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'Don’t be afraid of it. Art can be scary!” says Mark Osterman, as he instructs a group of students on the uses of cyanide. He offers further tips: have a fire extinguisher handy; put your ether in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by Studio Q shows "Skull Valley Massacre, 1864," an image by Quinn Jacobson that he took this month at Teepee ...

Frustrated by the ease at which digital photos can be taken and doctored, some artists are kicking it old school: They’ve revived wet plate collodion photography, a medium invented and popular during ...