Pictures Taken In Any Weather
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nightdog_barksRecently came across a wonderful photography blog called Luminous Lint. Here's one of the many photos on the site, with two more under the cut:
Girl With Polka Dot Dress, unknown photographer, circa 1870
Portrait of Two Young Men, unknown photographer, circa 1852
Or, as the cataloguer says, "This image is more likely of two wannabe tough guys, rather than the real thing." Which was also my first thought, plus the fact that I can't help hearing these boys laugh like Beavis and Butthead.
And yes, pictures taken in any weather. :D
Hot again today, many housely things to take care of.
Girl With Polka Dot Dress, unknown photographer, circa 1870
Portrait of Two Young Men, unknown photographer, circa 1852
Or, as the cataloguer says, "This image is more likely of two wannabe tough guys, rather than the real thing." Which was also my first thought, plus the fact that I can't help hearing these boys laugh like Beavis and Butthead.
And yes, pictures taken in any weather. :D
Hot again today, many housely things to take care of.
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Date: 2012-07-31 05:22 pm (UTC):-D
And he took that photo of Proto-Beavis and Ur-Butthead, no doubt, and smirked at their supreme satisfaction with themselves.
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Date: 2012-07-31 06:06 pm (UTC)And yes, those young men are trying, so very hard, to be Tough.
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Date: 2012-07-31 06:41 pm (UTC)The two wanna-be tough guys are very funny. They really do look like Beavis and Butthead. :D
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Date: 2012-07-31 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-31 07:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-31 08:26 pm (UTC)I wonder if that dress is red or blue? *g*
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Date: 2012-08-07 03:42 am (UTC)These are so fascinating, but I think whoever supplied the date for the little girl's picture is off by a bit. I'm far from being an expert, but the portrait looks to me like a daguerreotype (you can see the damage to the corners, and the lighter-colored oval around the little girl where the picture was kept in a case). "Dags" were way out of style by the 1870s -- the technique of "painting on glass", as it was called, had been supplanted first by tintypes and then by photos on paper by the mid-1860s.
Judging from the hairstyle, the style of her dress, and the material, it's probably a daguerreotype from the 1850s, although it may be as late as the early 1860s; children's clothing styles were fairly fluid and not nearly so tied to fashion plates as adult women's were. The family would have paid a little extra to have that delicate touch of pink added to her cheeks (another clue that it's a dag; photos were far harder to tint so finely).
She's really a little charmer, and so happy to have her picture taken!
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Date: 2012-08-07 03:57 am (UTC)Here's the source for the photo; I went back to double-check the date, and yep, they've got it as "circa 1870." I honestly don't know who's doing the cataloging -- the site owner or another source -- BUT YOU'VE CONVINCED ME. Heh, I love it when people talk research to me.
... do you mind if I friend you? :-D
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Date: 2012-08-07 01:10 pm (UTC)Having looked at the picture on the site itself, it says it's a tintype. It's hard to tell a picture of a tintype from a picture of a daguerreotype, but obviously the siteowner would have the object in hand, so I bet s/he's right! :^)
With that information, I'm going to shift my date guess to "probably the early to mid-1860s", based mostly on her dress--the wide belt was a big part of the fashion of the Civil War era.
And the internal evidence suggests that whoever the photographer was, he was really good with children. She's seated comfortably on a child-sized chair in a position that allows her to sit still easily, and the photographer has used something to attract her attention upwards and to her right and bring out that adorable smile!
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Date: 2012-08-07 04:27 pm (UTC)