Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush school excercises with each letter the first

with each letter the first letter in a German phrase

the one at left a wooden post and silver painted metal sign with "Look Out RR Crossing For Cars" carved into it and no base (it will stand on its own on a flat surface)

Or else our subject was dressed up as in a maid's uniform and is playing the part of a servant taking a break from her duties

with the single flower

I can't look at it without thinking of pressed sea moss albums

Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush school excercises with each letter the firstI just can't get over how contemporary a super spare full body antique tintype portrait like this one feels and how completely present the subject thereby seems, as if one could oneself walk straight into the frame and touch him. Even better to find that starkness in an occupational photo, here with this painters profession distilled down to a drippy paint can and brush in hand. And with a clear line of white paint stain running straight across the