Man in Plaid, 19th C. Tintype of an Earlier Ambrotype (I believe) key fob as I made my pile

as I made my pile at an antique shop yesterday

dated 1961

including the pear

but I think this is likely a one of a kind homemade version

with wear to the exterior cloth-bound cover and some spot staining to the inside pages throughout

Man in Plaid, 19th C. Tintype of an Earlier Ambrotype (I believe) key fob as I made my pileI can't get enough of photographs that speak to changing modes and mechanisms of representation, reproduction, preservation, etc etc. a contemporary conversation, but certainly not a new one, and so much of it rolled into the history of photography. And so my favorite photographs are photographs of photographs, or photographs of paintings photographs as means of preserving earlier representations and ushering them forward, often through translation