Harry Taylor Photography

A Southern Winter Wedding

2012-02-08T02:33:00.000-08:00

Great fun with cousin Isabel and Rachid on a chilly January night. We even did a tintype portrait session before the rehearsal in my downtown daylight studio. Here are a few of the highlights.

Rio Jordan, images from the Cape Fear River

2012-01-31T05:45:00.000-08:00

A show of 50+ Tintypes and Ambrotypes shot over the past 3 years in and around the Cape Fear River. This is the start of a long term project to document the lower Cape Fear with the wet plate process and large cameras. "Rio Jordan" refers to the name Giovanni de Verrazano of Spain gave the river in 1524. Also included are some tintypes I made on my Spanish expedition
of June 2011. I was a guest artist at Sianoja XI.

No Boundries 2011 Opening

2012-01-26T14:54:00.001-08:00

Excellent group show of 20+Wilmington based artist. There will be 3 tintypes from me, made from my badass Island Passage golf cart / dark room.

Southern Style Fine Art Wedding Photography in Wilmington NC

2012-01-14T03:47:00.000-08:00

Historic processes such as Film, Tintypes and Ambrotypes used to document your wedding day.
I used a digital camera too,but the gems of the day often come with the magic analogue photography. If you want something more, I'm your guy.
Pardon the catchy post title, just a little something for search engines.

tintypes for the holidays

2011-11-27T05:07:00.000-08:00

Nothing says you care like a tintype. Its the ultimate photographic gift, call for yours today.
You can even smile if you want.

New work on sale now

2011-11-21T11:31:00.000-08:00

Our State, and Garden and Gun, get yours today. There is also a video on Ourstate.com showing
me at work making the plates from the story.
John Sullivan's new book is a must as well, you can find out more about his work at theparisreview.org. Phillip Gerard tells us about our history each month in Our State magazine.

Tintype wedding in Asheville

2011-11-11T03:57:00.000-08:00

Honour and Douglas married September 24 2011. Now forever more, they can touch their
their wedding day through the tintypes we make. Here are a few of the 30 or so done in
6-7 hours of live wedding action. Whole Plate, Half plate and a few brownie size plates
just because I like the way they look.
Planning a daytime wedding? maybe you would like more than a "shoot and burn"...
Maybe something artfully handmade like a tintype or ambrotype.

Our State Magazine

2011-10-22T05:19:00.000-07:00

Thanks to you Brian Reed and Jim McKee for enduring video and tintype photography all in a day. And Our state for trying something new in an old way. I shot this for a story on the Civil War coming up in this months Our State.
And Special thank to Jonathan Weaver for perfect edit of the raw footage I shot as I was making tintypes. That's really using both sides of the brain I might add.

http://youtube/IA3GbBbYuM0

or search on you tube Harry Taylor tintype....

Tintype days are here again!

2011-10-19T15:27:00.000-07:00

Many thanks to Dennis Walsak at Modular Graphics for this festive poster design. Check out the latest work at his 621N4th gallery.
Historically people have had lots of fun doing tintypes , it was the original foto booth.
So bust out your zombie suit, zoot suit or what ever turns you on.
We'll make art.

Fall Tintypes

2011-09-21T14:02:00.000-07:00

Fall is is a great time for family tintypes, Call for yours today 910 540 0793.
Ask for Fly...

Sianoja

2011-07-08T04:25:00.000-07:00

All I can really say in a short blog post, is thanks to Manolo y Ana and all involved for a fantastic symposio. I am thrilled to know you all. And to my patrons I'm nearly ready to show you your print choices. Big Thanks to you as well. From here I work on my Spanish.

Modern tintypes -modern family

2011-06-14T08:12:00.000-07:00

Meet the Connolly's its all about living art ,catching fish and having a good laugh. Here they are
forever on jappaned steel. This will really confuse people 150 years from now(at a yard sale). I wonder about our telephones; full of photos, where will they be 150 years from now?
see more at michelleconnollyart.com go there!

Tintype wedding

2011-05-31T05:26:00.000-07:00

As if regular wedding photography is not stressful enough, how about a tintype wedding like my new friends Jamie and Tom. The couple choose to have a really personal wedding circa 1875. Here are a few of the 16 plates made(in 5 hours)(in blazing midday sun), half and whole plate sizes.
Many thanks to The Jarvis Mansion , New Bern, North Carolina,for making this a great day for all.

Tintypes of Spain

2011-05-06T03:54:00.000-07:00

Always dreamed of Spain? Do you love Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain? or maybe Spanish Bombs by the Clash like me? Heres you chance to pre buy a print from my expedition to Noja. I have been invited to come to the Sianoja- Simposio International De Artistas En Noja. I am thrilled and honored, but it is not free, so I am pre selling 16x20 prints $162.80 nc sales tax applies. Your choice of the 50+ plates I plan to shoot. Portraits and landscapes with the orgins of the early explorers of the Cape Fear River in mind. They called the river "Jordan", by the way. 5 of 25 sold!!! Hurry this is a limited offer and other wise you will have to wait until Feburary to see the show at 621N4TH gallery. Call or email for your contract today. Fund art the old fashion
way, buy it!

World Wet Plate Day 2011

2011-05-01T18:49:00.001-07:00

2 of the 20 some plates I did today, to honor Fredrick Archer, who 1851 invented the process I started doing in 2007. Top is a Half plate the bottom is 8x10, both jappaned tin.

Sianoja-Simposio Internacional De Artistas En Noja

2011-04-28T08:28:00.000-07:00

I have been invited to Noja Spain to be apart of Simposio Internacional De Artistas En Noja. I am very honored and excited -needless to say. To help pay my expenses I am offering a pre-sale of prints from this expedition. I expect to make 50+ plates in my 10 day visit and you can have a signed 16x20
archival pigment print from this collection. The Tintypes and Ambrotypes themselves will be on exhibit in Feburary 2012 at the 621N4TH gallery . This is all apart of my studies of the Cape Fear River (the Spanish were the first from Europe to explore the river). The work will be likeness and other world views done with the wet plate collodion process of the Spanish coast and its people.
For $150USD you may pre buy a 16X20 inch print. This is a limited offer and when I reach my goal the sale is over so don't wait. No salesman will visit your home. Call or email for your contract today, hflytaylor@yahoo.com. Corporate sponsors are welcome, Visa ,paypal
and cash accepted. NC sales tax apply. Thanks for looking and please come to the opening.
Make it a great day-Harry

Onward Soldiers tonight at The Whiskey

2011-03-10T14:38:00.000-08:00

Great band on their way to Austin. See them off tonight, down at The Whiskey...

Raleigh Fine Art Society Nc Artist Show

2011-03-07T03:16:00.000-08:00

Thank you to all involved in the Raleigh Fine Art Society. I am honored to be apart of the show
and the discussion. Most of all thank you for caring about art!

Albumen print in Juxtapoz

2011-02-28T15:25:00.000-08:00

My old friend Joe Brook over at Thrasher, used a photo I did on a glass negative at John Coffers for his profile in the new Juxtapoz. On sale now!
Also see joebrook.com for some amazing photography.

Ft Anderson -Brunswick town EVENT

2011-02-17T19:17:00.000-08:00

Stop by for a ambrotype or a real tintype on jappaned tin. I'm the one with the wagon.
Its the Stamp Act too! Rise above!

onward soldiers

2011-02-10T04:49:00.000-08:00

Onwardsoldiers.com and they are on facebook too. New tintypes by the river.

Heartsapart Ambrotypes

2011-01-18T02:19:00.000-08:00

Heartsapart.org

2011-01-17T03:42:00.000-08:00

I have been looking for a way to say thank you the men and families of our military when my friend Brownie Harris called with his project. I was in before he finished his sentence.
Please visit heartsapart.org to learn all about what going on. This is Barry. I'm very proud
of him and his service. These are 8x10 ambrotypes.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

2011-01-01T03:50:00.000-08:00

John is an acclaimed writer and power broker of cool. This a clear glass ambrotype was made in my daylight studio, by the river, with winter morning light.

Ambrotypes are made with cameras like this. Just so you understand, my trusty 8x10 Century is over 110 years old.

On sale now Country Woman Magazine

2010-12-23T08:44:00.000-08:00

Its not always tintypes for me. Its a country Christmas today . Styled with Amy Tyndall,
and the cookies are amazing! Find this at a bookseller near you.

Opening tonight

2010-12-10T02:27:00.001-08:00

At the Gallery 621N4TH, 6 until 10 pm see "the prayer" 40x50,along with some of amazing work by Elizabeth Darrow, William Fredich, Michelle Connolly, Virginia Wright-Frierson, Jenifer Page, Saban Kane, Colleen Ringrose, Diane Hause, Dick Roberts, Quinton Warhauer,
Dennis Walsak and yours truly. The show is called Past Present Future and is that, of the shows
at 621N4th. Runs through the month.
See you there

New Ambrotype Portraits

2010-12-03T18:19:00.000-08:00

Ambrotypes make heirloom quality gifts for those who like to stare. When a glance won't do
think ambrotype. Call for yours today.

No Boundaries International Artist Colony

2010-11-18T02:07:00.000-08:00

No Boundaries International Artist Colony, opening this Saturday night at AMCE art ,
Wilmington NC. I worked mostly with glass ambrotypes like the one above. Come and
you will see art from 20+ international artist. By far the event of the year.

Tintype Photography at Soil to Soul

2010-10-24T12:12:00.000-07:00

A fun day of Tintypes.

New Tintype Portraits

2010-10-22T03:41:00.000-07:00

In celebration of the pending wedding of Anna and Seamus, we found it necessary to shoot 8x10
tintypes at the Cameron Museum of Art. An excellent site for wedding things , I might add.
If you are in need or simply desire a tintype of yourself or loved one I will be set up at Soil to Soul aka Progressive Gardener 6005 Oleander drive on saturday the 23rd. Costumes suggested.
9-4pm.
Another interesting fact, I just booked a wedding where I will shoot wet plate collodion tintypes
for the entire wedding. The date is 1872 for this event. I cannot wait!

Dispatch from Penland

2010-09-21T03:05:00.000-07:00

Jerry Spagnoli , Kerny Ramsey and Jennifer Jeffers prepare our show at the end of session show and tell.
Photographer Dennis Lane points out the finer points of Daguerreotypes to potter Cynthia Bringle. Generally people were stunned by the beauty of daguerreotypes.
Daguerrotypist/photographer Robin Dreyer shares with director Jean McLaughlin and other artist
some of Dennis Lane's Daguerreotypes.

True to form, I had to shoot some tintypes- this is the camera obscura at Penland.
Ghostly Quarter plate daguerreotype by yours truly . And a cover shot for Our State magazine, for the Penland School of Crafts issue, maybe. If you've been there, you know this view, holy ground as far as I'm concerned.

I'm just back from my 5th visit, 1st in 20 years, to Penland School of Crafts. I was in Jerry Spagnoli's
Contemporary Daguerreotypes class (session 7 one week). Not quite the life changing experience it was
for me as a teen, but great. Jerry is an outstanding teacher and generous in his knowledge of the art of photography, especially in my favorite era, the 19th century. His book, Jerry Spagnoli Daguerreotypes
is a must. I was delighted to see he is a street photographer using ancient media for stunning results.

His color work is nothing short of some of the best I've ever seen and likely, will be his legacy . Check out his website www.jerryspagnoli.com to see what color film shot on an 8x10 camera looks like and
some mind blowing daguerreotypes. If you can visit Penland, or take a class with Jerry, you should.

Senior portrait

2010-09-16T02:52:00.000-07:00

Simple is best. The hard part is going B+W or color.

Alex

2010-08-19T07:52:00.001-07:00

8x10 tintype , in the studio just last week. See Alex play at the Ocean Tiki Grill ,Carolina beach Friday night.

Second Saturday at Ft Anderson Brunswick Town

2010-07-09T03:24:00.001-07:00

Come out to Ft Anderson Brunswick Town and see ancient ruins and walk the grounds of what once was. This week its all about textiles of the 18th and 19th centuries. Not to be missed!
And of course I will be selling tintypes, perhaps of said textiles or you. A great chance to have something real from a hot day on the Cape Fear River.

Dispatch from Fort Fisher

2010-06-22T04:25:00.001-07:00

Fun day at ft Fisher, too bad you missed it. Maybe next time if you're lucky, I will be.
All japanned steel half plates.

Support Our Troops: Making the connection 1865-2010

2010-06-17T05:58:00.000-07:00

This week too, Ft Fisher is where its at. Last chance for a tintype at an amazing historic site.
Here are a few from last week_
Dispatch to follow.

2nd Saturdays at Fort Fisher

2010-06-10T02:32:00.000-07:00

This month the 2nd Saturday program at Ft Fisher is all about landscape and history. Come by and see live tintype demos along with some prints and some other art as well. Not to be missed.
9-5pm this Saturday.

World Wet Plate Photography Day

2010-05-04T17:57:00.000-07:00

www.wetplateday.org
Yes another world wet plate day has come and gone and I had the honor to submit another
tintype. Here are a few outtakes....
And if you would like one of your own, you know where to find me.

Azalea Belle

2010-04-01T07:04:00.000-07:00

Kelsey, at one of our amazing locations here in Wilmington. Call for for yours today.

Cucalorus Oscar Night Bash

2010-03-07T20:37:00.000-08:00

And the secret word is avatar
see it all at http://flyweddings.lifepics.com

Cucalorus Oscar Night Bash

2010-03-05T13:21:00.000-08:00

Children and the wet plate process, rarely come together with anything in focus. Rainey and Mac
did great and holding still. This is a demo for the auction at the Cucalorus Film Festival Oscar night party. Here's you chance to buy a 8x10 tintype with you or yours in it.
But you can call me direct.

Travis Rayle

2010-03-04T14:24:00.000-08:00

Travis Rayle, 5x7 ambrotype
Travis, 8x10 ambrotype, in the studio, sunday afternoon. Something for a record cover.if you hadn't heard of him you will. His artful jazzy, country music is of another place.

2010-02-23T18:12:00.000-08:00

ok just a couple more half plate tintypes from my visit to the Civil War.I wish I could have copied them all, but the great thing about tintypes, there is only one.

2010-02-22T03:15:00.000-08:00

war widow, Ft Anderson, 1/4 plate tintype.

2010-02-20T18:37:00.000-08:00

Some of the fine folks defending Ft Anderson. Never been there? You should go.

2010-02-19T02:44:00.000-08:00

Tiffany, at a barn, near the river.Feb 17,2010. 5x7 ambrotype

2010-02-18T03:11:00.000-08:00

Jones, half-plate tintype.

the16th

2010-02-16T17:54:00.000-08:00

Captain Phil Morgan stopped by today. He's a great local photog who saw the second half of the 20th century and dares to still look. 8x10 tintype shot today, on the last of the light of today.

the15th

2010-02-16T01:40:00.000-08:00

still life today,1/2plate tintype

testing 1-2

2010-02-14T17:44:00.001-08:00

Today is a quick test of a stereo set up.The snow is all but gone now.
5x8tintype.

SNOW

2010-02-13T17:57:00.000-08:00

Our first snow in many years. 5x8 tintype

12 feb10

2010-02-12T13:03:00.000-08:00

Winter slumber before snow. Snow?

one cold 10th of feb

2010-02-10T19:14:00.000-08:00

A very cold day to shoot with an 8x10 camera, to make a 5x7 tintype.

Tuesday

2010-02-09T18:33:00.000-08:00

Quick study before the rain, Browine camera tintype.

monday the 8th

2010-02-08T17:36:00.000-08:00

country lane. 5x7 tintype

2010-02-07T18:48:00.000-08:00

Super sunday 2010. Fresh today.

feb 6

2010-02-06T15:39:00.000-08:00

I wish you all could see the detail in this plate. Its pretty crisp. I made this today with a 100 year old 3a pony By KODAK. 3 3/4 x6. Still very gloomy today. But I am stoked.

Friday the 5th

2010-02-05T17:57:00.000-08:00

Gloomy day today,but here's a whole plate tintype,for the 5th.

2010-02-04T15:32:00.000-08:00

Still life was my first love photography. Heres a quick one for Feb 4th 2010. just before dark.

The 3rd of Feb2010

2010-02-03T14:55:00.000-08:00

Spencer , age nine , clear glass ambrotype.

2 feb 2010

2010-02-02T09:05:00.000-08:00

2 feb 10,
Chair near river, before the rain. Brownie camera tintype.3 3/4 x 4 1/2.

1 a day for Feb, or Daily tintype til I get Tired....

2010-02-01T12:34:00.000-08:00

A lot of folks in Wilmington- artist are showing new work daily in Feb. Here goes.

2010-01-19T02:35:00.000-08:00

Jamie and Patrick, July 2009. Great summer fun, right here in Wilmington.

Warm Wishes 2010

2010-01-02T07:05:00.001-08:00

Like many of you out there in blog-land , I'm dreaming of summer. A hot day in South Carolina
comes to mind; the bride walking out of the setting late june sun is one of those wedding moments I will never forget. We even did a jump shot(they where the fashion back in the mid '90's, maybe my third of such).Fantastic day, fantastic hot day. Visit Coastal Urge to hear more about it.
it.

2009-12-28T05:32:00.000-08:00

Timeless, classic, nothing says love like a tintype. One of a kind, made to last beyond the generations we know. Come get yours today.

Twins in time

2009-09-18T10:11:00.000-07:00

Sometimes things and photography get real interesting. Shot last week.

2009-09-01T03:19:00.000-07:00

Another look back at a summer, camping at Lake
Waccamaw. Bugs ,swimming and bugs.

Summer of Love

2009-08-19T18:00:00.000-07:00

Some favorite
wedding pictures
of this crazy summer.

2009-06-19T04:52:00.000-07:00

Big Al Hall is old friend of mine I hadn't seen in 30 years.We just renewed the friendship over a tintype photoshoot
for his up coming record.Yes RECORD.

Get your turntable ready and clear the furniture you're going to want to move.
The rest of these guys make it happen,
more later.

2009-05-29T03:48:00.000-07:00

Here are some new portraits shot for
a lovely hyper color
magazine we all love.
Hiroshi Sueyoshi is
a master potter, blending the proud traditions of Seagrove, North Carolina and Japan.
I can't thank him enough for allowing me to shoot tintypes.
I shot digital too,but the tins have the vibe I was looking for. Lets hope they get used.
You you wet plate fans
they are Whole plate,
shot on the old 8x10
camera.

here is Ellie and Brendan, the day after their wedding. I can't stop staring at this one; all sense of time is lost. Ellie has a blog that describes her wedding journey mintdesignblog.com
If in the planning stage of a wedding here is how to do it with style.
Pardon the jumbled arrangement,blogs print upside down
as you might know.

2009-05-05T07:38:00.000-07:00

In honor of Fredrick Archer,World Wet Plate Day came and went on Saturday May

2,2009. www.wetplateday.org
To make this day of interest here in the port city, Print maker Shannon Rayle Bourne, Tintypest/photographer Chris Morgan and Yours truly opened up my studio for an open house.
We didn't really advertise,just pretty much word of mouth
and the turnout rocked -maybe 200 folks!
A good time followed and I was able to shot this image of Joe from The Travelers as my contribution to the book that will follow.
The image of the reader was one from the show.
And bare with me as I learn how this blog thing works...
Things come in up side down ;the photos at the top are from show before the crowd arrived and drank all the wine and bought all the art or some of the art.
See my work at www.harrytaylorphoto.com and Chris at www.creativeexposureinc.com.
Hopefully Shannon will have a site soon.
over and out.

First post again

2009-04-26T07:27:00.001-07:00

Its been a busy spring in terms of tintypes.
Here are perhaps the first wedding tintypes shot in the world ,in
2009.
here is Hilliary and Chris.

the rest of these are belly-dancers, bro-inlaws

And painter/printmaker/Chef-Dave Sinclair.

scroll down to see the rest of the plates all 5x7 and 8x10 one of a kind tintypes.

If you want to see your self in the 19th century,call now for your portrait session.