Boys in Motion, Earth Ball Aloft, Poetic and Metaphoric Feeling Old Snapshot Photo ink drawn Full plate tintype: 8 3/8"

Full plate tintype: 8 3/8" x 6"

that means the colors are super vivid (the photos are pretty accurate color-wise

there feels something powerfully true and tender about the convergence of naivete and brutality in drawings like this--and one can feel the catharsis of pent up energy and aggression being released through the process of making it

Very early 20th century I believe

so was very pleased and surprised to scoop this one at Brimfield

Boys in Motion, Earth Ball Aloft, Poetic and Metaphoric Feeling Old Snapshot Photo ink drawn Full plate tintype: 8 3/8"Getting to pick through piles of already well curated photos is a great pleasure; it is a very good challenge for the eye to pluck one good one from many, but sometime wants to luxury of an already well chosen selection. As was the case with this one, purchased from one of the best in the business to my eye a very rich and beautiful image, all these raised arms in motion, captured from behind, holding this Earth ball aloft (quite a metaphor, too) and