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:

How Civil War-Era Tintype Photographs Were Made

Tintype photos, as the name implies, were photos with the image on a metal surface, rather than on glass or paper. Tintypes were produced in the USA from 1856 and became popular from the 1860s. They remained popular into the 1900s and as late as the 1920s.

Private Albert H. Davis of Company K, 6th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment 1861 [via Library of Congress] * click on image for a larger view8

1/6 Plate Tintype of a Young Federal Drummer.

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John Coffer - "The tintype Recaptured" from Cristiano MENDES on Vimeo.