Allan Barnes

Recent work with Ilyria Wulf and Kisa
8x10" tintype/ambro on round glass #wetplatecollodion #fineartnude
#altprocess #handmade

well, I am slightly ahead of you in the Tortoise race, I was selling a few things for a minute there, but mostly prints and older stuff at that....

Good example! This reminds me of another issue, I just had my Etsy account suspended for not covering every last nipple. I have only had one sale on Etsy this year, things were a little busier a few years ago, so I am not going to appeal.

Are there any places that you are selling work these days?

I'm really happy that I transitioned from relying on magazines and newspapers for income.

Thanks, Cidergirl!

Yosemite National Park, 4.2021
8x10" tintype

Congrats to photojournalist Lexis Olivier-Ray for this shot! Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino + goons in front of artist Barbara Kruger's iconic mural outside of @moca en route to harass CA Gov Gavin Newsom in LA.

Please share.

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(Model: Ulorin Vex)

Work from the magical summer of 2010, photographed at Hunter St, Los Angeles. #wetplatecollodion #altprocess #handmade #ambrotype #tintype

Yosemite National Park 2019, 2021 and 2015. From various visits on varied pieces of glass over the last decade. #ambrotype #wetplatecollodion #handmade #californialandscape #longexposure #altprocess #largeformat

Recent work from Yosemite National Park
45 second exposures F64, Darlot Portrait lens is too small and gives cool vignette! #tondo #wetplatecollodion #altprocess #handmade #tintype #ambrotype #largeformat #californialandscape

New experiments, old ambrotypes.
1. Peggy, 2014
2. "Stepbrothers" 2009
Used generative fill in photoshop, and put in the prompt "19th century painted photographer's backdrop forest/woods.
7.2025 #ambrotype
#altprocess ##wetplatecollodion #photoshopgenerativefill

Recent Work: Yosemite National Park, July 2025. 45 second exposures, F64. #wetplatecollodion #altprocess #nationalparks #californialandscape #blackandwhite #largeformat #americanwest

It's part of my dayjob to keep up with changes in Photoshop, especially new tools...So I am experimenting with generative AI to change backgrounds/attempt to clean up scratches, etc..I asked for a generated "19th century painted forest backdrop" and got this...

Prepping old work (some of it from forty-two years ago) for a new show at Gallerie Camille in Detroit, opening Wed. July 9th.
#roots #detroitarchitecture #detroitlandscape.

Recent Work: Tragedy and Comedy: Kunty and Paula, 05.2025
whole plate tintype #wetplatecollodion #sendintheclowns #altprocess

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Newsom: "Arrest me. Let's just get it over with, tough guy. I don't give a damn ... Tom, arrest me. Let's go."

Kutna Hora, Czech Republic, Summer 2000. (with orotone version, made during summer 2020_
Shot on Tri-X Pan Film

Oh, I started using the faux-leaf sheets during Covid when I made some "faux-orotones" which are inkjet prints on vellum with a faux-leaf backing.

Yes, please post results when you can!
(i have been messing with faux gold leaf too)

Tried that chipped glass with rabbit skin glue thing long ago, it's a cool effect, never thought about trying it to frame an ambro, great idea!

Work with Perse, 2022-2024
whole plate tintypes #wetplatecollodion #altprocess
#tintype
#collaboration

Alex Jade 2016. Ambrotype on round glass medallion #wetplatecollodion
#altprocess #ambrotype #tondo

Kunty and Paula as Tragedy and Comedy. May 2025

Kunty and Paula as Tragedy and Comedy.
5.2025
8x10" ambrotype #wetplatecollodion
#ambrotype #largeformat

American Artist Amanda Charchian, Los Angeles CA 8.2013...She's a badass!

Fort Point, 12.2023. 8x 10" tintype 90 sec exposure f132.

I started taking pictures after my family moved out of Old Redford/NW Detroit but I did make a few in the 1980s.
Left: Mr. Van Burg of Van Burg Jewelers . 2. "Albert" of Albert's Hamburgers on Grand River mid 1980s. "Albert" was murdered in his small burger joint a few years later. #oldredford #bw