Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Found photos



More found vintage photos. These were salvaged from beneath a pile of scrap metal in the Hockomock Swamp of Bridgewater Massachusetts (?!) Sorry for the lo-res scans (if anyone cares I can rescan at a higher resolution.) I have rescanned at a higher resolution-- click and see. I don't know what it is about vintage photos that I find so interesting. I don't think modern digital photographs will survive to have a new life the way these do.
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  1. corazonMay 9, 2010 at 7:43 PM

    how photos like this get lost? why are they discarded? i'm glad they have another life here.

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  2. unimportantMay 9, 2010 at 8:37 PM

    Sometimes I look at discarded photos like this and try to guess the lives of those pictured. My guess: the photos belonged to the couple in the upper right, who apparently only had one child, and when they passed away most of their belongings were sold at an estate sale, and everything else (including these photos) was simply thrown away. Maybe their daughter was estranged, or maybe she died young. "It is a sad and beautiful world."

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