Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype crepe both with Helen's name written

both with Helen's name written on them

Lovingly made whatever its purpose

Paper: 9 1/2" x 6 9/16"

And hard to look at these and not want to know all about Martha and Walter and Elfredia

Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype crepe both with Helen's name writtenI keep saying, and will keep saying, to me there is just something about a good tintype that is like nothing else, making the subjects feel so present and right there, and often feeling both transcendent of time and very contemporary. This one has a bit of a Diane Arbus feeling about it to me, with such striking, distinctive and expressive faces on these two, a grandmother and grandson perhaps, who it feels like a street photographer might just have