Man in Plaid, 19th C. Tintype of an Earlier Ambrotype (I believe) key fob with this great interplay of

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

and who is perhaps best known for photographing Mary Todd Lincoln in mourning attire in 1865 as well as John Wilkes Booth

as I made my pile at an antique shop yesterday

the old dog Schepp following as chief mourner

can be removed but stays in just fine

Man in Plaid, 19th C. Tintype of an Earlier Ambrotype (I believe) key fob with this great interplay ofI 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