Penumbra Foundation is a nonprofit organization that brings together the art and science of photography through education, research, outreach, and public and residency programs. Our goal is to be a comprehensive resource for photographers at any level, artists, students, professionals, historians, researchers, conservators, and curators.
Have your portrait taken at Penumbra Foundation’s Tintype Portrait booth.
Learn MoreHave your portrait taken at Penumbra Foundation’s Tintype Portrait booth.
Learn MoreStop by Penumbra Foundation’s Tintype Booth to have your portrait taken and learn more about the historic 19th century photo process!
Learn MoreSwing by our booth for a portrait session! Your tintype will be a one of a kind, heirloom-quality gift that will last for generations.
Learn MoreLearn the basics of the historic cyanotype process, and make your own images using an assortment of translucent items and the sunlight to expose your prints!
Learn MoreThe Penumbra Foundation will set up a tintype booth at the 2018 Photoville festival.
Considered by many to be the Polaroid of the 19th century, the tintype is made almost instantaneously through a process that uses hand poured chemicals on an enameled sheet of metal. Tintypes, often found today in near original condition, were passed down as family heirlooms and valued for their time-tested archival stability.
Learn MoreEach tintype session will take 15-20 minutes to shoot and develop the image, and approximately one additional hour before the plate is ready to take home. Those interested can come to our booth and sign up for a time slot.
Learn MoreOpen every day until one hour before closing.
Penumbra will be shooting tintype portraits and hosting a cyanotype workshop with information sessions.
Learn MoreThe Penumbra Foundation will offer an introduction workshop to the Cyanotype Process.
Learn MoreThe Penumbra Foundation | Center for Alternative Photography will offer an introduction workshop to the Cyanotype Process. Participants of the workshop will be given a piece of paper pre-coated with the Cyanotype synthesizer on which they will place small objects (also supplied) before putting this assembly in sunlight.
Learn MoreIn 1842 Sir John Herschel decided that the Daguerreotype, the first photographic printing process, was too expensive, difficult and potentially lethal. Thus, he invented in that year the printing process to which he gave the name Cyanotype. It produced a monochromatic Prussian blue photographic print on inexpensive materials such as paper or cloth.
Learn MoreThe Penumbra Foundation is bringing its Tintype Booth back to Photoville this year! If you are looking for a portrait photograph that captures your unique, individual personality, step into our portable tintype photo booth and experience the magic of this 19th century photographic process!
Learn MoreIn 1842 Sir John Herschel decided that the Daguerreotype, the first photographic printing process, was too expensive, difficult and potentially lethal. Thus, he invented in that year the printing process to which he gave the name Cyanotype.
Learn MoreIn 1842 Sir John Herschel decided that the Daguerreotype, the first photographic printing process, was too expensive, difficult and potentially lethal. Thus, he invented in that year the printing process to which he gave the name Cyanotype.
Learn MoreIf you are looking for a portrait photograph that captures the passion of your unique, individual personality, step into our portable tintype photo booth and experience the magic of this 19th century photographic process!
Learn MoreThis will be an intensive one-day introduction to the tintype process that was the leading mode of photography in the 1850′s and 1860′s.
Learn MoreIf you are looking for a portrait photograph that captures the passion of your unique, individual personality, step into our portable tintype photo booth and experience the magic of this 19th century photographic process!
Learn MoreEach artist will give a brief presentation and discussion of their work. This lecture will serve as an introduction to the history and initiatives of the Penumbra Foundation and the CAP.
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