Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype club ) With a unique combination

) With a unique combination of decorative chipped carved elements on each side

especially the pattern of lines on its back when viewed from above

adding up one very painterly composition after another

with a small square cutout for hanging

Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype club ) With a unique combinationI 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