Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype crepe both with Helen's name written

both with Helen's name written on them

Structurally

which I think this smallish painting very much is

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

) Assuming the former

Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype crepe both with Helen's name writtenI 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