Clara Wagner is often lauded as the first woman to race a motorcycle—or at least the first documented woman to do so, as captured by many newspapers in 1910. But is she?
Clara Wagner: The First Woman to Race Motorcycles?
Dorian Pitt by Lumiere Tintype
Dorian Pitt, a New Jersey native living in Austin, Texas, visited Lumiere Tintype (lumieretintype.com) for some old school portraits with her Honda CB 360. They came out quite lovely!
Tintype photography is the act of making a direct positive (rather than negatives like film cameras we’re used to) on a thin sheet of iron coated with a enamel/laquer. The enamel works with the photographic emulsion process where silver salts (usually) are suspended through the dark laquer to create the depth in tintypes.
Like the style? Check out this tintype photograph of Stormie in Portland, OR.
Follow Dorian on instagram @dorkian2.
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Posted on October 25, 2014 in Art, MotoLadies by Alicia Mariah Elfving