Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype brass stencil outfit I'm not quite sure how

I'm not quite sure how all it was used that yielded this incredible surface

and that basket at the center

smooth stone has a very calming effect too

or sometimes inspired by

between the marvelously tender interactions among figures--the touch of fingers

Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype brass stencil outfit I'm not quite sure howI 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