Different Lives, Early 20th C. Portrait of Two Men with Victorian Wicker RPPC indexical photos and with quite a patina

and with quite a patina that makes it seem that it may have been incorporated into an alter

with the cumulative marks and notes and drawings of many different students spread across its surface on both sides

giving it a sense of movement and also

which feels very Florentine to my eye

still standing tall

Different Lives, Early 20th C. Portrait of Two Men with Victorian Wicker RPPC indexical photos and with quite a patinaI find this photograph very beautiful, and poignant I presume a father and son, though perhaps brothers, the elder in what appears to be the attire of a tradesman or laborer, the younger carefully groomed and wearing a pinstriped suit, suggesting very different sorts of lives and livelihoods but with their hands, side by side in similar positions, together gripping the same ornate Victorian piece of wicker furniture in front of them. A wonderfully