BILLY THE KID PHOTO LANDSCAPE ARCH MANUAL
He may have learned the trade by working as a photographer’s assistant, or he may have bought a used tintyper’s outfit, read a manual and started practicing. He was most likely a New Mexican who thought to try his hand at photography. He had a basic knowledge of camera operations and processing, but his tintypes exhibit little knowledge of lighting and portraiture, an overall carelessness and crude skills. The identity of the photographer who tintyped Billy Bonney is unknown, but the tintype itself and other probable examples of his work tell us something about him. Tintypes were inexpensive for the customer, lucrative for the tintyper. He then cut the sheet into plates to sell individually or in quantity. A tintyper could capture one image up to 32 times on the same sheet if he had the lenses and the septums (dividers) and/or the repeating back. Some tintypers, as the photographers called themselves, were artists who took portraiture and landscape photography seriously, while others were technically adept cameramen who learned the finer points of posing. Tintypes were tiny images but, when properly exposed and processed, rendered fine detail. They were used primarily to capture full-length portraits.
Tintypes were also durable and thin enough to be mailed in a letter. the dollars charged for paper photographs. A tintype could be processed in minutes and was inexpensive, costing anywhere from a nickel to a quarter vs. The photographers who took ferrotypes and the customers who bought them from 1856 through the turn of the 20th century called them “tintypes,” although they contained no actual tin.
The ferrotype was a direct positive image in black, gray and silver pigment supported on a sheet of ferris iron. Bonney (as the man we call Billy the Kid called himself at the time). Drawing on what tintypers themselves said about their craft, the common procedure for posing and taking a picture, and the visual information contained in the image itself, it is possible to reconstruct with reasonable accuracy the 1879–80 “shooting” of William H. To understand the anomalies in the image and the damage it has sustained, one must understand how a tintype is fabricated, taken and processed, and how it weathers the years. The poor condition of the tintype speaks for itself. It’s high time for a closer look at his photograph, perhaps the world’s most famous tintype. Historians continue to study him and learn more about his life (mysteries do remain, of course). Billy has long been a frontier legend now the only known photograph of him has become legendary. Koch naturally created a buzz that extended beyond the outlaw and lawmen aficionados to the public at large. The one and only authenticated photograph of Billy the Kid sold at auction in June 2011 for $2.3 million-the highest amount ever paid for a historic image of the American West. The tintype may be as tarnished as the outlaw himself, but it has obtained legendary status as a one-of-a-kind treasure. How the Only Photo of the Most Infamous Outlaw in the American West Came About Close
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