Beautiful Boys Wading, Old Snapshot Portrait antique personal slate I believe was likely meant

I believe was likely meant to rest an iron

though also I think certainly frame worthy

I was happy to open it to find a bunch of old drawing charcoal inside--and somehow that blackest black inside the olive green tin with black sans serif font feels just right and resonant to me

perhaps ideally on the wall of an old school steakhouse

but I like how they have faded in quite a painterly way

Beautiful Boys Wading, Old Snapshot Portrait antique personal slate I believe was likely meantThis is the second of two photographs of swimmers I purchased on a very sweaty day at Brimfield, but even in depths of winter I know I would have found this bunch too beautiful to resist and the clarity and range of tones in the photograph make it an especially striking one. Such a wonderful mix of gestures and postures among these young men, making it feel like nine individual portraits while also very expressive of their relationships with one