Lynn Bierbaum

Lynn Bierbaum American photographer working in Wetplate on glass

Lynn Bierbaum, an American photographer, works in the unusual process of making wetplate collodions on glass. Lynn Bierbaum is a photographer and glassblower and makes the combination seems natural.
From: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Shows: Wet Plate Collodion on Blown Glass forms.

Lynn Bierbaum is an alternative photographer and glassblower from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She started doing wet plate collodion two years ago and glassblowing shortly thereafter. She studied at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls, and graduated in the fall of 2017. While there she became inspired to continue learning more about historic photographic processes, so Lynn took a wet plate collodion class taught by Dan Estabrook at Penland School of Crafts in the summer of 2018 and returned again as a studio assistant for Jill Enfield in the spring of 2019.

These opportunities allowed her to refine and continue printing on her blown glass forms. Lynn Bierbaum’s work strives to find a balance between two and three-dimensional planes. She blows the glass vessels to create an extension beyond the photograph that is just as important as the image itself.

“Glass is already such a physical thing, by adding wet plate collodion on top of the forms I am able to fill the emptiness inside them.”

Note:

All Images are Wet Plate Collodion on Blown Glass forms. Glass forms are made by me except with the Thai Appreciation Series, those are in collaboration with Ty Pratumwon.
Thai Appreciation is a collaboration between Lynn Bierbaum and Ty Pratumwon. Ambrotype on Blown Glass, 2019

Contact Lynn Bierbaum

  • Email: lynn.bierbaum (at) yahoo.com
  • Website
  • Lynn’s Instagram: lynn_bierbaum
  • Ty’s Instagram: typryprat
 
 
Recommended reading - Books on Wet plate collodion and Ambrotypes
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Chemical Pictures The Wet Plate Collodion Book: Making Ambrotypes, Tintypes & Alumitypes

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Covers everything you need to know about wet-plate collodion photography.
 

Making the Sliding Box Camera: For Wet Plate Collodion or Daguerreotype Photography

Making the Sliding Box Camera: For Wet Plate Collodion or Daguerreotype Photography

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Learn how to construct a camera in wood, dating back to the daguerreotype era.
 

Making the Traditional Wet Plate Camera: Suitable for Wet Plate Collodion, Dry Plate, or Daguerreotype Photography

Making the Traditional Wet Plate Camera: Suitable for Wet Plate Collodion, Dry Plate, or Daguerreotype Photography

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From the basics to more advanced techniques on building a historically-correct bellows camera for plate photography.
 

The Ambrotype: A Practical Guide by Radosław Brzozowski
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The Ambrotype: A Practical Guide

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8 of 10   Rated 8,0 – based on 6 votes

A step-by-step practical guide to ambrotypes.
 

The Wet Collodion Plate: 16 Steps To Making The Plates by Will Dunniway

The Wet Collodion Plate: 16 Steps To Making The Plates

by Will Dunniway

9 of 10   Rated 9,2 – based on 26 votes

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