The joy of collecting found photos.
over the years, consuming great photography both in print and online wherever I can find it on a daily basis.In November of 2019, visiting my parents down in Los Angeles over Thanksgiving, and shortly before the pandemic started, I stumbled upon a box of 35mm slides in a warehouse in an antique store. I bought the box and began digging into the slides . What I discovered was truly a treasure.
To simplify things I’m defining found photos as physical photos, negatives, and slides that have been separated from their original owners. Some collectors need the physical manifestation of paper. They need to touch a photograph, feel a photograph, hold the weight of the photograph in their hand and examine it as an object.A Kodachrome slide of a trip across the Golden Gate Bridge in San Franisco, date stamped on slide September 1959.
For the remainder of this article, I am going to walk through my process, explaining each step I take in my own collecting.Found photos can be acquired in many different places. For me, I find the best deals come from as close to the source as I can get. From the best I’ve been able to tell, the most common ways for photographs to become separated from an owner are through the death of the owner or through unpaid storage locker bills resulting in lockers being auctioned off.
After estate sales, you can also find slides/photos at flea markets, antique/thrift stores, and auctions.
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