Man in Plaid, 19th C. Tintype of an Earlier Ambrotype (I believe) key fob including the pear

including the pear

but I think this is likely a one of a kind homemade version

and who is perhaps best known for photographing Mary Todd Lincoln in mourning attire in 1865 as well as John Wilkes Booth

the old dog Schepp following as chief mourner

Man in Plaid, 19th C. Tintype of an Earlier Ambrotype (I believe) key fob including the pearI can't get enough of photographs that speak to changing modes and mechanisms of representation, reproduction, preservation, etc etc. a contemporary conversation, but certainly not a new one, and so much of it rolled into the history of photography. And so my favorite photographs are photographs of photographs, or photographs of paintings photographs as means of preserving earlier representations and ushering them forward, often through translation