Henry Mullins is one of the most famous photographers represented in the jersey photo archive. He produced over 9,000 portraits of islanders from 1853 to 2873 at a time when the population was about 55,000. The most famous type of photo that was printed by henry Mullins was the diamond cameo, which was 4 headshots cropped in to an oval shape and displayed into a diamond shape.


The three types of prints Henry Mullins did was the receipt print which was a small rectangle and was printed on to very thin paper. The second type of print was his most famous the diamond cameo which was 4 headshots cropped into an oval shape and displayed on the paper in the shape of a diamond. The last type of print was a bleached headshot and its multiple headshots with the colour fading from the head.






Make sure you also describe Mullins working methods using carte-de-visite and albumen printing technique.
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