Topic: Found Prints

[Mike (happyforest)]

I was looking through an old box of prints and came across these.  I was asked some 20 years ago by a colleague it I could copy some of his families old photographs to preserve them.  These are copies for some reason I retained.  Unfortunately the gentleman concerned moved to Ireland some years ago and we lost touch, so I am unable to give any back ground to who these are etc. I think they might have been either his grand parents or great grand parents.

Mike

[Mike (happyforest)]

And these.

I particularly like the first one her of the young lady in front of a back drop.

[Francois]

I too have a found picture. Only problem is I have absolutely no idea about who is on it!
Since it's a "trash find", I guess they won't mind

[Phil Bebbington]

I too have a found picture. Only problem is I have absolutely no idea about who is on it!

The guy in the centre looks very familiar.

[Francois]

Somebody you know? 

[original_ann]

that monkey is wearing a wedding band!

[LT]

I too have a found picture. Only problem is I have absolutely no idea about who is on it!
Since it's a "trash find", I guess they won't mind

it's not Nim Chimpsky is it?

[Nigel]

Maybe they're constituents of Oliver Letwin?  (sorry UK joke)

[DaveO]

I was looking through an old box of prints and came across these.  I was asked some 20 years ago by a colleague it I could copy some of his families old photographs to preserve them.  These are copies for some reason I retained.  Unfortunately the gentleman concerned moved to Ireland some years ago and we lost touch, so I am unable to give any back ground to who these are etc. I think they might have been either his grand parents or great grand parents.

Mike

     With digital cameras now, you won't be looking through a box of old prints because most people either don't print or print a small percentage of their images. B&W seems to stay really good on the old prints, some of my old color prints have faded a little. So too have the ektachrome slides, but not the Kodachromes. Unfortunately it does not exist anymore.

DaveO

[al]

     With digital cameras now, you won't be looking through a box of old prints because most people either don't print or print a small percentage of their images. B&W seems to stay really good on the old prints, some of my old color prints have faded a little. So too have the ektachrome slides, but not the Kodachromes. Unfortunately it does not exist anymore.

Digital will certainly change the rules of the game of "found photo", but the sport won't dissapear.  The fact that images are now seldom printed will reduce the "prints in a tin" finds, but the things to look out for will be images on memory cards left in long-forgotton in-the-attic digital cameras.  I've bought and sold many a digital camera and it amazes me the number people who pass on their cameras with cards full of personal family images.  The most "interesting" ones were always the first generation digitals (chunky old 1 megapixel or less beasts)  Finally free from the high unit cost of polaroids, and no longer having to worry about giggles from the minilab staff when prints were collected, the images found on old SmartMedia cards (remember those?) would often raise an eyebrow I can tell you!   

[Benjamin J]

the real question is whether or not we'll be able to read those SmartMedia cards in the decades to come.  While file formats may be a bit more flexible, if you don't have a card reader toshiba no longer makes how will you get a look at those files? granted, if you find a roll of kodachrome today your options are somewhat limited, but prints will always be prints.

on the flip-side of the coin, one wonders whether those shots up on facebook will ever go away! part of me hopes so, but part of me would mourn the loss of what is the digital equivalent of the photo album

[sapata]

I like going through old photographs in second hand markets... I have bought quite a few and hand-coloured them for fun.

[gary m]

Feel free to post your pics in my Found Photos group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/found-photos/

Maybe, the greatest art discovery within hundred years from now, would be our grandparents' photo albums! - Wifredo Garcia