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

with this great interplay of graphics and cutouts on the front diagramming how primaries blend to make secondary colors -- i

including the pear

dated 1961

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