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Bruddas Monkey Woman in Red, c. 1937. Kodachrome Glass Mounted Slide. What’s everyone looking at? Who are these guys? Celebrities from some town, from some time... Western Star Boat. Somewhere in Mexico. I can’t explain why but this 1986 picture of the Sovran... Desert sands in the foreground, snow-capped mountain peaks in... Ball Game. April, 1959. The only one in this picture with his eye on the ball is the guy... I think this picture is from somewhere in Nebraska. The $3.95... Sometimes I try to imagine where a picture was taken. Pictures... I hope we get a lot of snow this winter. A cellist from 1943 looks through the cracked pane of a... Boy on a Big Wheel Sometimes the look in a child’s eyes bear the disdain and... YOU Courtship, 1940s Kid in a Clown Suit. More than the ambivalent child in the clown... You spring from my loin. Now swim! |
In April, 2009, I bought two boxes of family slides at the Second Best Thrift Shop in Astoria. The slides - hundreds of them spanning 1958 to 1981 - show travels and day-to-day activities of a Brooklyn family and friends at home, on boats, and at work. I tried to reverse-engineer their lives, tried to figure out exactly who they were, what they did for a living and what traces of their legacy might survive today. Like any set of family slides this series provides only glimpses into a family's personal history. Their house -- seen in the "House and Family" section of these slides -- still stands today. Many of the pictures here are from inside that house, leading me to imagine what might transpire if I introduced myself to that home's current residents, presenting them with these pictures of the ghosts from their home's past. I posted all the pictures with a separate section of highlights from the series. The highlights section is an ongoing project containing the narrative I have been able to assemble for this Brooklyn family. I also share here the balance of these slides, including hundreds of travel pictures from Italy, Ireland, and other European countries. It would be satisfying for me to be able to re-unite these slides with anyone pictured therein who still survives. What are the chances?
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Photographing a child in death. Very common in those days.
Posted by Quasimodo (guest) on Thu 15 Jul 2010 12:17:01 PM EDT