Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype crepe I purchased it from a

I purchased it from a dealer in my neck of the woods

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and look even better in person (there is a little glare on a few of the photos

which I think this smallish painting very much is

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Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype crepe I purchased it from aI 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