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Three mysteries: Prints found at a flea market

3rd March 2009, 07:13 pm

Found: Sailor by the side of the road, Nov 1944
I love how the figure is extremely small in the landscape. There is no detail in the face in this print.

Joshua Tree
This small joshua tree photo is marked 6/29/27 on the back — could that be right? The print is 2 1/4″ by 1 1/2″ (63mm x 40mm image area).

Dogs and coats
This dog photo cracks me up.

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    8 Comments

    1. Andy Frazer:

      That first photograph of the sailor is fascinating. One one hand, it goes against everything that I expect in a successful photograph: we can’t identify either the location nor the subject, and it doesn’t succeed as abstract art. On the other hand, I can’t stop staring at it and thinking about what’s going on in it.

      4 March 2009, 8:19 am

    2. Brad:

      Those are cool, Joe. Seems like there’s a project out there that can be done with old found photos….

      4 March 2009, 8:33 am

    3. joe:

      Andy – yeah, the sailor photo is rule breaking and hypnotizing!

      Brad – the found photos phenomenon is well explored online and in print, but still lots of fun. One of my favorites in this genre is Mark Michaelson’s Least Wanted, which is a collection of mugshots from the 1870′s to 1960′s.

      4 March 2009, 9:19 am

    4. Michael Kesler:

      I find the first photo kind of spooky. Something i would expect to find in the attic of an old house, just before the haunting starts…

      4 March 2009, 12:45 pm

    5. Troy:

      I like this found image site: http://retrozone.tumblr.com/.

      Joe, you hooked me onto this and I check it every day now.

      The Sailor is a classic example of “a picture is worth a thousand words.”

      1927? Why not?

      4 March 2009, 4:42 pm

    6. joe:

      Michael – Could be spooky, or maybe just a here I am at the beach photo. Lots of mystery either way.

      Troy – The retrozone site is definitely in the feedreader — please note kids, this is mildly NSFW.
      The actual joshua tree print looks more modern than 1927, but the neg could certainly be older.

      4 March 2009, 5:07 pm

    7. Susanne:

      Love these photos, especially the sailor one. The dog photos kind of funny because the lady on the right seems to be wearing a coat made from… fluffy white dog! I like that their heads are cut off.

      4 March 2009, 11:27 pm

    8. Jay Watson:

      Woman on the right looks like she is wearing one of her dogs.

      20 March 2009, 9:37 pm