Curious Old Mounted Photograph (Photo of Photo) of Farm House Clare Leighton New England Industries give or take

give or take

maybe carrying a load of laundry in the basket overhead

which I imagine is what spurred its creation to begin with

no more than what it needs to be and seemingly perfectly suited to go for a float--and I find that flat expanse of chocolate brown paint weirdly but truly satisfying

The rifle he holds can be raised into ready position

Curious Old Mounted Photograph (Photo of Photo) of Farm House Clare Leighton New England Industries give or takeJust as I love antique daguerreotypes of painted portraits, I love old photographs of photographs, which this appears to be, with a small tear in the original image at lower left giving it away. The tear is not in this photograph; rather, it seems that a photograph of fairly unremarkable looking house, a farmhouse I guess with what looks like a small barn next to it was placed on a brown paper ground and rephotographed to yield the image here, which