Man in Plaid, 19th C. Tintype of an Earlier Ambrotype (I believe) key fob a symbol of the Rebekahs)

a symbol of the Rebekahs) is the name and number of a specific lodge in Portland

but I think this is likely a one of a kind homemade version

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

the old dog Schepp following as chief mourner

with wear to the exterior cloth-bound cover and some spot staining to the inside pages throughout

Man in Plaid, 19th C. Tintype of an Earlier Ambrotype (I believe) key fob a symbol of the Rebekahs)I 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