The Hold-Up, 1880s. Creator: Unidentified Photographer
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The Hold-Up, 1880s. Creator: Unidentified Photographer
The Hold-Up, 1880s. Since the beginning of photography, objects and people have been purposefully arranged, or staged, for the camera. Popular in the late 1860s and 1870s, tintypes offered low prices and shortened exposure times. Perhaps because tintypists commonly worked at fairs and carnivals, frivolous images, such as this staged hold-up and the contrived fight below, became common. In these fictional scenes, all the participants were in on the joke. Some scenes may be novelties, others may be gag portraits commissioned by groups of friends
Media ID 19627039
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Tintype Unidentified Photographer
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