Ninth Plate Ambrotype Portrait of Woman with Braids and Aura! collection Great spare form (this owl

Great spare form (this owl feels rather Brutalist to me in the best of ways)

but I just love the look of it

The largest one has scalloped edges as well as shutters that open and close

and I would think British

both wonderfully primitive

Ninth Plate Ambrotype Portrait of Woman with Braids and Aura! collection Great spare form (this owlI think the more one looks at and for things, the more attracted to the effects of time and chance one becomes, which can make already singular things all the more so. I found a very potent image of a Civil War soldier several weeks ago, which had deteriorated such that it appeared his head had been shot off, and actually purchased this and one other I am listing now from that same seller, I think all three previously held in one collection. I believe