Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype brass stencil outfit Reynolds it looks to me--gathering

Reynolds it looks to me--gathering and arranging  these shells in order to draw them

or sometimes inspired by

which seems rather aligned with his youthfulness and rather searching expression (and I must say that without the red robe and tassel

which I'll continue to scoop up as I think they're really a lovely

9 7/8" x 7 7/8"

Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype brass stencil outfit Reynolds it looks to me--gatheringI 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