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#15 via What You See
a book of snapshots from the collection of Luciano Rigolini
published by Lars Muller

Rigolini is interested above all in snapshots in which, consciously or unconsciously, form and structure move into the foreground, so that the specific pictorial content becomes secondary. In his cleverly arranged sequences, the photographs can no longer be read merely as reproductions of reality. They turn out to be artifacts that construct reality.

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#14 via International Center for Photography

from the past exhibit "America and the Tintype"
of which there is a fine book available (on sale)...

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#13 via A Sound Awareness

from the book "The Haunted Air" - a collection of anonymous photographs from Ossian Brown and published by Jonathan Cape. As far as I know, only available from the U.K. - Thematic books of vintage vernacular photographs are rarely this well done and the breadth of strangeness contained in this extraordinary collection of costumed Halloween spirits displays the tradition wonderfully.

New to the Past Pictures website

women and World's Fair ball

ghosts and jack-o-lantern

man and rocking horse

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#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.

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#11 via That Board

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