A Handmade Images Commission
The Keeper’s Plate
Wet Plate Portraits of Collector Automobiles
A PORTRAIT OF YOUR AUTOMOBILE. MADE IN SILVER
An 1850s photograph of your car, made in your own driveway — one plate of silver, no negative, no second copy.
Why so few can make one
A wet plate is poured, sensitized, exposed and developed while it is still wet — some fifteen minutes, start to finish. The plate cannot wait, and it cannot travel. So the darkroom does.
What you commission
The Keeper’s Portrait
You and the car on one plate, in the same light. It is the plate that gets handed down, and the reason most owners call.
The detail set
A suite of tight studies, each on its own plate, of the parts an owner knows by heart. Hung together, they read as one work.
The full car plate
The whole automobile held on one plate, nose to tail — the hardest exposure of the day, and the one that hangs like a painting.
What the plate does to your car
Chrome glows like liquid silver
Reds and oranges fall to black
One of one
It outlasts its owners
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