Tethered: Old Snapshot of Proud Homing Pigeon in Perfect Profile Binney and Smith much loved condition

much loved condition

Born in 1862

it in very good condition still

based I believe of the earliest of Gilbert Stuart's Washington portraits: the Gibbs-Channing-Avery portrait

Navel" (1925) with cutouts in the page that reveal the white page behind it

Tethered: Old Snapshot of Proud Homing Pigeon in Perfect Profile Binney and Smith much loved conditionSomething about a photograph of a handsome and perfectly poised homing pigeon really does it for me a proud portrait of a rather phenomenal creature, which also brings to mind Terry Evans' gorgeous photographs of drawers full of taxidermied birds at the Field Museum. And here, with string wrapped, tethered leg, this pigeon feels like all the more like embodied potential soon to be released. A striking image, with the platform also looking one part