I managed to find a description of the collodion/wet-plate process
"Glass plates coated with a mixture of gun cotton and ether and bathed in a silver solution are exposed still wet in the camera. The result is a swirling, ethereal image with a center of preternatural clarity. "
- New York Times, 19/11/2000
Sally Mann encountered the Collodion process in 1972, and was taught the wet plate technique from Mark and France Scully Osterman.
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