Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair carved wood feet I find the form really

I find the form really beautiful

which turns into a seascape

In addition to being wonderfully primitive

but adding their own elements and adaptations

I rather like that he didn't just stick to birds found in Maine

Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair carved wood feet I find the form reallyI think daguerreotypes of paintings are such special things, documents of a very particular moment in time, when silhouettes and painted portraits were just giving way to photographic ones; as such, to me, they represent a wonderful convergence of both technologies and sensibilities, and feel supremely tender and very very human. This one, a ninth plate, c. 1840s 50s I would think, captures a folk art painting of on older man in profile seated in a