Young Woman with Book and Tree, Evocative Early, Hand-colored, Degraded Cased Ambrotype copy block with its gold leafed wood

with its gold leafed wood body and bronze head and feet

Middle cube divides into two parts

perfectly aged and worn

in big proud capital letters: Roy Myers 1945

later to become A

Young Woman with Book and Tree, Evocative Early, Hand-colored, Degraded Cased Ambrotype copy block with its gold leafed woodIt has been a while since I found a cased photo I really loved for its degradation, but this is one of those (though I would certainly really love this one in pristine condition too!) For me the all over craquelure makes this lovely young woman feel extra moody and the image all the more an object hovering in between the worlds of past and present, dead and living, substance and spirit. With hands on a book in front of her, pinked cheeks, and painted