Lovely Ladies

As promised, here's version 2.0 of "Hot Tintypes":
The fairer sex.

Pretty photos of pretty people.
Tintypes, Daguerrotypes, Ambrotypes, and some other types, 
I'm sure...

 { This first picture is my new favorite favorite thing.  Witches? Witches!  What's with the dead bird? Doesn't matter.  It's all amazing, and an alluring mystery. }

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{ Gorgeous.  }

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{ This lady is the great or great-great grandmother of Drew Barrymore.  Fox! }

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{ A gypsy; taken after arriving on Ellis Island. }

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{ So haunting. }

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{ So young! }

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{ A straight-up Texas lass.  She'll cut a bitch. }

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{ I would wear allll of this. }

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And rounding out the "Hot Hair" category:

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Because I missed a few fellers last time:

{ Who is he? Who cares! He's a gentleman and a scholar... I can tell. }

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{ Artist Paul Gustave Dore.  Check out his amazing engravings. }

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{ Could go either way.. }

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{ Haha... these are dudes. }

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tags: ambrotype, antique, daguerrotype. first drag queens, ladies, men, photograph, picture, tintype, victorian, women, 1800s

The World of Helen Warner

Entering the world of Helen Warner is to delve into a ghostly place, where haunting and magic are the standard, where all is sheathed in cloaks of dark mystery, and one can imagine witches and fairies and demons alike sharing secret corners of shrouded lands.

Ms. Warner's vision is gothic and vicarious, allowing the viewer to participate in her world while remaining just outside of it, like something glimpsed on the edge of the peripheral.  She takes an unobtrusive role and allows the intense, energetic subject matter to tell the story on its own, allowing us to feel like we stumbled upon the strange scene all by ourselves.
 

Her photos hold a dichotic balance of elegant and edgy, light and dark, welcoming and foreboding.

In short, I want to go to there.

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source; source.

tags:  art, dark, demons, fairies, fantasy, grotesque, helen warner, magic, mystery, photo, photography, portrait, vague, witches, woods, worlds