Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype crepe There is a terrific website

There is a terrific website dedicated entirely to these - www

I have found no other copy of the green-backed deck

both with Helen's name written on them

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

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Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype crepe There is a terrific websiteI 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