Stunning Large Format Tintype Portraits of the Stars at Sundance ~ by Victoria Will

Portrait photographer Victoria Will brought along her large format tintype camera to Sundance to capture celebrities' sometimes melancholy and always expressive faces. The Tintype process was popular in the 1860's and has grown in popularity amongst many current fine art portrait photographers.



Philip Seymour Hoffman.


Mark Ruffalo.


Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers


Jason Schwartzman.


Anna Kendrick.


Dane Dehaan. ( The Place Beyond the Pines )


Elle Fanning.


Elijah Wood.


Anne Hathaway.


Michael Shannon.


Kristen Stewart.


William H. Macy.


Brit Marling.


Jesse Eisenberg.


Scott McNairy. (12 Years a Slave)


Elizabeth Banks.


Sam Rockwell.


Photographer Anton Corbijn.


Jacob Lofland.


Maggie Gyllenhaal.


Emmanuelle Chriqui.


Glenn Close.


Don Jonson.


Diane Kruger and Britt Marling.


Bill Hader.



Rachel McAdams and Willem Dafoe.


Sam Shepard.


Astrid Berges-Frisbey. (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides )


Tim Daly


Steve Coogan.



Billy Crudup.


Boyd Holbrook.


Jason Momoa. (Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones)


Katie Couric.

Marisa Tomei.

Nick Cave.


Michael Pitt.


That dude from 30 Rock ( aka Jack McBrayer.)


Elle Fanning and Glenn Close.


Diane Kruger.


Kurt Russell.


Michael C. Hall.

Making a Tintype photograph:

Marilyn Munroe by Photographer Milton H. Greene

Fashion and celebrity photographer Milton H. Greene was only 26 years old when he photographed Marilyn Monroe for Look magazine. He went on to take thousands of photos of the Hollywood siren, capturing both her vulnerability and her sex-bomb persona.

Now, 3,700 unpublished black-and-white and color negatives and transparencies of Greene's Monroe archive are going on the auction block – with copyright. They are but a fraction of 75,000 celebrity negatives and slides Greene shot in the 1950s and 1960s that are going on sale July 27 at Profiles in History in Los Angeles and online.

Copyrights are included with all the material, which is spread over 268 lots, meaning a potential buyer can print images from the negatives and transparencies, sell them and license the material.

"It's a big, big deal. It's like selling the recipe for Coca-Cola," said Joseph Maddalena, owner of Profiles in History, which auctions original Hollywood memorabilia and artifacts.

"It's nearly unheard of in a public venue, particularly for an entire archive," said Christopher Belport, the photography consultant for Profiles in History. [via Huffington Post]

 

Marilyn Monroe and Milton's son Joshua by Milton Greene, 1956.