I love looking at Daguerreotypes of little kids. For one thing, I have no idea how they get these young girls to have their hair curled. More importantly, I can’t help but wonder what kind of women they grew up to be, and what their lives were like.
Phineas Gage was kind of a stud…
This was the one I drew…

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Albumen print portrait by Lady Alice Mary Kerr, early 1860s. A boyfriend with a memorable stare. From the British Library.
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Steichen! (vs. Aiden Quinn). ha!
Photographer Edward Steichen c. 1917 and Aidan Quinn c. Legends of the Fall





