Sunday, January 9, 2011

Gashlycrumb Tinies Department








One of my older tintypes--from the 1870s or 1880s, I'm guessing. In late nineteenth=century America the tintype was the Daguerreotype of the working poor. Yet however cheaply produced, tintypes have their own kind of ragged--yet intransigent--intensity, as here.

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