Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Taking someones photograph is to participate in his or hers mortality, percisely by slicing out that moment and freezing it.
Photographs testify to times relentless melt.
  -  Susan Sontag



Images (1840-1870)
Daguerreotype - Ambrotype - Tintype - Carte De Visite


DAG
DAG
DAG
DAG
DAG
Extremely rare... head stand visible behind the subject.


Ambro


Ambro


Tin
Tin
Gemtype
Gemtype


Oreo/Sweetheart Case - Rare, very sought after

CDV
CDV

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