Other People's Pictures

[Quigley Brown]

I recently came across this website promoting a documentary about obsessive collectors of vintage snapshots.

http://www.other-peoples-pictures.com/home.htm

Admit it...all of us here have at least one vintage photograph of someone we have no idea who they are. If I had the time and money I think it would be neat to make a similar documentary called 'Other People's Clothes' or 'hats' or 'ties'....something like that...interviewing fellow FL members talking about their collections and why they collect. Or has one already been made?[huh]

 

[Gilbey]

I am glad that these pictures are being preserved somehow by collectors I never knew existed. Who would collect photographs from strangers? I am not a collector of them myself, but I would say I got initiated into it when it came as a surprise for me.

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=21509&highlight=forgotten+moments

There is a sentimentality attached to it that you can almost feel even if they were strangers and from places unknown. We all share the same passion of life as we spend our years in this beautiful world. Moments captured in these photographs can only happen once which makes it very special. Very special indeed.

Thanks for sharing this Quigley Brown.

 

[MrNewportCustom]

I love other people's photos.

Looking at these old photos, you can see how human nature really hasn't changed. Compare them to current pictures you've seen that you or friends and family taken: The lady holding the magnifying glass in front of her mouth, the man holding his "tiny friend" in his hand, or the blurred man on the bike (with the delay my point-and-shoot digital has, I get similar action pictures way too often. )

How about the first one in the gallery, of the man taking a picture of himself . . . how many times have we seen that here in the Lounge? lol

I took one like that of the man laying face down in the grass. I took it in 2001, of a now ex-girlfriend who'd plopped herself face-down on the bed after a day of walking tourism in Hollywood.

What's that old saying? "The more things change, the more they stay the same." Pictures prove that to be true all the time.

Thank you, Quigley Brown, for sharing this with us.


Lee

 

[mikepara]

Mmmmn unfortunately (?) I'm one of the guilty party. I've 1000's of photos of unknowns.

It started innocently enough. Some photo postcards of some WW1 German sailors that looked quite good, then some British regiments and then an album of someones trip to the Alps, for the skiing photos inside. Justified I thought, well I am / was a ski instructor in a previous job / life.

Then some more albums... Armoured Car regiments, then loose collections of 150+ photos of the 25th RF Frontiersmen in East Africa, a massive set of early WWI & post war Royal Engineers Signals /Royal Signals, someones collection of Royal Horse Artillery, then Early WW1 Royal Flying Corps women, WWII WAAF / WRAF...

On a rare few I know who they are in as much as they are named, but remain otherwise unknown to me.

I can't help it now I see some great pics and think Wow gotta have them!

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