Does anyone here collect Baseball Cards

Bill Burk

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A few questions in one. Literally do you collect baseball cards? Have you ever seen this series?

Stumbled upon this unexpectedly while looking for something else.

https://petapixel.com/2015/09/18/iconic-photographers-posed-for-these-baseball-cards-in-1974/

I was looking for a crime photo where I thought Imogen Cunningham coveted a rock at Ansel Adams’ home and stole it. Maybe Minor White’s rock.

If anyone knows please point me to it. My story doesn’t make sense unless I can finish why I took the photo. Does anyone know the shot I mean?

This is my sister in an homage to the photo. She and I both want to steal my mom’s corkscrew. I bought something functionally like it and it’s on the way to me but nothing like it ever turns up…


 

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Bill Burk said:
I was looking for a crime photo where I thought Imogen Cunningham coveted a rock at Ansel Adams’ home and stole it. Maybe Minor White’s rock.
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Photographers have somewhat different crime scenes than artists. Specifically painters, who have been known to really, totally lose it at times. Getting arrested was a rite of initiation w/ the Abstract Expressionists. I wouldn't want to have seen Minor White's rock in Jackson Pollock's hands.

As for the photographer cards, wow, those are just wonderful! I used to collect baseball cards as a kid, those are probably worth a fortune now that they're long gone. They weren't big in the South, we lived for college football, but I bought the cards because they were very colorful and the size was right. About the size of a cigarette pack. They were also dirt cheap, maybe a quarter or half a dollar a pack? Had Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, all those guys.
 
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Way back in 1953 I managed to collect the entire set of baseball cards despite all that bubblegum -- I didn't get any cavities. In 1996 I found the stash along with some other memorabilia and sold them and bought my first Hasselblad plus an extra 150mm lens (all still in use). Who would have known back then they would be worth the effort collecting neighborhood bottles and trading the deposits for the gum packages containing the cards.

http://www.jeffreyglasser.com/

http://www.sculptureandphotography.com/
 

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As a child for a short time I collected baseball card.
 

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FABULOUS topic..!!!

I bought cards in the mid 1960s to early 1970s.
Will not bother to check spelling but.............. Topps and Fleer.
MOST of my cards, even guys like, Carl Yastrezemki Willie Mays, Phil Niekro, or Vida Blue were not worth much money. Their "Worth " came in trading for (several) "lesser players"
The hobby went crazy in the 1990s when my son was in grade school. Cards were selling for unheard of amounts compared to when i bought them.
I have no idea if kids still buy them, what companies still make them, or what they might be worth.
The forgotten prehistory of Topps, Fleer, and Donruss
https://jasoncards.wordpress.com/2019/01/05/the-forgotten-prehistory-of-topps-fleer-and-donruss/
 

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I can't remember where I first heard about these. I find the Imogen Cunningham one hilarious. re-issue is trading at about $400 give or take. Fudge.
 
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I found the photo.
John Loengard’s photo of Georgia Okeeffe stolen from Eliot Porter.

 
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