Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush winnowing Rosine stole these away

Rosine stole these away

one does want to be a bit careful handling it as there is quite a lot packed onto/into the surface

) I find the details on these pretty amazing and really wonderful

my guess might be that these were done as first hand sketches out west

Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush winnowing Rosine stole these awayI just can't get over how contemporary a super spare full body antique tintype portrait like this one feels and how completely present the subject thereby seems, as if one could oneself walk straight into the frame and touch him. Even better to find that starkness in an occupational photo, here with this painters profession distilled down to a drippy paint can and brush in hand. And with a clear line of white paint stain running straight across the