Tintype Portraits
Wallis S., tintype
I want to tell you how blown away I am with your tin types. They have an atmosphere that is unlike anything I’ve seen in pictures other than, well, old tin types. I understood immediately why I tend to think of ancestors and historic figures as having an unearthly intensity and strength of character. I thought it came from their day-to-day struggle for survival but I think it may be more the quality of the process, the length of the pose and the cast of light. The result is that tin types etch faces for eternity – kind of a portrait noire. They are extraordinarily real and richly textured. It’s as if they offer a glimpse of the soul caught in an opaque and perilous world.
Wallis S.
