http://www.sorabji.com/pictures/Found_Photos/Brooklyn_Family_Slides/ 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? I have set up a discussion board which focuses on a few of the photos from this series with the hope of making a connection between these images and anyone who finds them.]]> en-us sorabji.com Gallery 2 RSS Module, version 1.1.7 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:04:22 -0500 360 http://www.sorabji.com/pictures/d/117783-4/Brooklyn_Family_Slides.jpg http://www.sorabji.com/pictures/Found_Photos/Brooklyn_Family_Slides/