Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype crepe ) Assuming the former

) Assuming the former

I have found no other copy of the green-backed deck

Lovingly made whatever its purpose

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

which I think this smallish painting very much is

Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype crepe ) Assuming the formerI 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