A type of photographic print or image made on an aluminum plate or using aluminum compounds as the light-sensitive material.
From alumin- + -type (from Greek typos, impression). A specialized photographic technique name from the 19th-century development of alternative printing processes.
Aluminotypes were part of the wild experimentation with photography in the 1800s—before film and digital, photographers tried printing on everything from aluminum to fish skin to create permanent images.
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