![]() The Painted Pin is the first bowling alley in the world to have lane-side P.Y.O.B. Trip Sandifer (Atlanta’s The Spence and Restaurant Eugene), mixologist and bar manager, offers signature cocktails. midtown kitchen, TROIS and Parish Foods & Goods) offers comforting pub and “upscale alley” fare including wood fired pizzas (courtesy of two Neapolitan style pizza ovens), tacos, sliders, sandwiches and salads. Chef Thomas Collins (Le Cordon Bleu graduate formerly of Atlanta’s ONE. The design is characterized as “modern English” with accents, furniture and fabrics taking their cues from classic British design. The Painted Pin offers 20 full service lanes along with iconic games in an industrial warehouse space in the heart of Buckhead’s Miami Circle. In part, it’s a reminder of the aptness of a remark the great French film critic André Bazin once made: “photography does not create eternity, as art does, it embalms time.” Here the embalmer’s skills, rouged cheeks and all, come to the fore.Atlanta’s new bar, bowling and entertainment venue opened its doors on June 9th. ![]() Yet the tintype has a vividness and emotional heft unlike anything else in the show. A young Black woman with a marvelous sweep of hair behind her is seen in profile in front of a grayish corrugated wall. The image could hardly be simpler in appearance. It’s especially true of the late David Prifti’s “Shawna.” That’s the tintype from 2007. They’re so much more direct and affecting. The few tintypes in the show that haven’t been tinted have far more force - they look more “real, or far less “unreal” - than the tinted ones. Weirdly, there’s a stylistic resemblance in several to the tintypes to the painting of Douanier Rousseau. Many of the tintypes look like pastels or lithographs. Applying color counters the lustrousness, precision, and sense of immediacy that are among the tintype’s chief characteristics. You can almost feel the painted surface come between you and the subject. They summon up neither the sitter’s then nor the viewer’s now. These painted tintypes seem to be outside of time. The miracle of photography is how it arrests time. The addition of color doesn’t so much heighten reality as deflect it. But here that unreality gets exaggerated. It’s two dimensions doing the work of three (four, if you include time). Paradoxically, with painted tintypes this greater descriptiveness, instead of making the images appear more lifelike, has a distancing effect. “It describes more things,” Meyerowitz said of why he switched from black and white to color. One of the chief agents of that change was the photographer Joel Meyerowitz. It’s hard to imagine now, but color in photography didn’t become respectable in “serious” photography until the 1970s. One example: “As an invaluable collective force, women from all walks of society raised whole generations, fought for political and racial equality, made major scientific breakthroughs, and nourished and kept families together.” That emphasis on the social aspect of the images makes sense, though the wall text does tend to belabor this, keyed more to uplift than specific insight. To give a sense of how much tintypes cut across society, there are many images of women and people of color. They were at their most popular in the 1860s and ‘70s, though “Painted Tintypes: Photography for the People” includes examples from the late 19th century and into the early 20th, as well as one from 2007. ![]() Less expensive than daguerreotypes, tintypes soon surpassed them in popularity. Like them, tintypes were printed on metal (iron, actually, not tin). Daguerreotypes were more popular in America. “Daguerrian” refers to daguerreotypes, one of the two originating formats for photography. And a metallic picture for himself at the same time. “The farmer boy gets an iron shoe for his horse. “The smallest town now has its Daguerrian gallery,” Frederick Douglass declared in an 1861 lecture. Photography was a democratic medium for a democratic society: accessible, unpretentious, utilitarian, inexpensive. Invented in Europe, in 1839, photography was quickly embraced in the United States.
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