Saturday, February 26, 2011

Ephemeral Camera

#12 via Look At Me (598)

LOOK AT ME
is a collection of found photos.

from the about page of "Look At Me":

These photos were either lost, forgotten, or thrown away. The images now are nameless, without connection to the people they show, or the photographer who took them. Maybe someone died and a relative threw away their photographs; maybe someone thought they were trash.

Some of the photos were found on the street. Some were stacked in a box, bought cheap at a flea market. Showing off or embarrassed, smug, sometimes happy, the people in these photos are strangers to us. They can't help but be interesting, as stories with only an introduction.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Ephemeral Camera

# 10 via House of Mirth
from a selection of early Kodachrome snapshots

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Monday, February 14, 2011

Ephemeral Camera

# 8 via The Boat Lullabies
one of many lovely anonymous snapshots in the slideshow from the wonderful
Square America photo essay "A Brief Essay on Love"

Friday, February 11, 2011

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Ephemeral Camera

# 6 - A Ritzy Bird House, 1930 via Anonymous Works

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Ephemeral Camera

#5 "Girls I Have Known" by Daniel Rochford via metmuseum.org

The invention and mass marketing of Kodak cameras in the late 1880s transformed photography into an everyday activity. By the turn of the century, amateurs everywhere were filling album pages with the fruits of their own labors. from: Kodak and the Rise of Amateur Photography - Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - Metropolitan Museum of Art


Thursday, February 3, 2011

Ephemeral Camera


#4 "Clyde " via whatsthatpicture
beginning a new series of found vernacular and anonymous photos,
randomly chosen from cited sources... enjoy

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Ephemeral Camera

beginning a new series of found vernacular and ephemeral photos,
randomly chosen from cited sources... enjoy