Ephemeral Camera

#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.

Ephemeral Camera

#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.

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

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