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When Jayne Hinds Bidaut saw her first tintype, she was so struck by its rich creamy tones that she could hardly believe this photographic process had been abandoned. ███ ███ ███ ██ ██████ ███ ██████ ███ ████ █████████ ███ █ ███ ██ ██████████ ███████ ████ ███ █████████████ ███████████ ███ █████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ███ ████ ██ ████ ███ ████████ ██ █████ ████████ ██ █ █████ ██████ █████ ██ ████ ██████ ██ ██ ███ ██ ████ ████████ ███ ██████ ███ ██████████████ ███ ███████ ███ ████████████████ ████████ ███ █████ ██████ █ ██████ ███████ ██ ███ ██████

Technique · Tintype

Old technique of capturing an image on iron. Bidaut trying to revive it.

Technique · Albumen prints and tintypes

Estabrook using these techniques to create fake antiques.

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Artistic Trend · Photographers are embracing old techniques

More Techniques · Daguerreotype; egg coated paper; pinhole cameras; mixing emulsions

There's a ton of interest in these old techniques.

Reason · Hands-on and idiosyncratic

This was also why they became obsolete in the first place.

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Reason · Idiosyncrasy, unpredictability, and accident

Estabrook values the accidental. It allows the photographs to elicit nostalgia.

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Reason · Unique works of art that bear the artist's mark

Techniques allow artists to leave their mark on their work, allow viewers to be intimate with photographs.

Passage Style

Single position

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12.

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Question Type

Analogy (RC)

The author describes the use of old techniques in P4 and P5. The old techniques have certain imperfections and inconsistencies that some artists desire. Let’s look for an answer that involves desirable imperfections or inconsistencies. (The LSAT might be looking for a parallel that’s even more abstract, however. So the answer might just involve someone using an old technique to produce a certain effect — that effect might not have to be an imperfection/inconsistency. Let’s keep an open mind.)

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It’s not clear how this involves a process that produces imperfections.

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It’s not clear how this involves a process that produces imperfections. The photographers aren’t merely looking to old techniques for inspiration. They’re actually using the old techniques to produce certain effects.

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Although this involves use of an old design, we don’t know whether the design involves imperfections or whether the engineer uses the design because of those imperfections.

12%

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This is the most analogous. It’s the only answer that involves someone using an old technique (woven on old-fashioned looms) because of some effect produced by that technique (irregular texture of handwoven garments).

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It’s not clear that the author is using an old technique; she using a modern program.

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