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[Bosliper]

My names David. Just turned 65 and have always shot film, now shoot digital and iPhone as well. I studied photography in college, back then it was all b&w. Ansel, Sally Mann and Ralph Eugene Meatyard. I worked my way through school at a film lab, a factory really. The kind of place drug stores and supermarkets sent their customers film. It was a great job, lots of down time waiting for the trucks to come in with all the envelopes that we would process and get ready for the night shift who would print and then send back out the next morning. While waiting for the trucks and I would often go through the garbage looking at all the reject photos, thousands, tens of thousands. I would shuffle through them like I was dealing cards, looking for the ones that would make me stop. Hundreds I had to save, I still have them, they have become a part of my process. They are not personal like my family photos but also not as distant as say the family photos of Sally Man. They changed the way I thought about making photography, first off, no more black and white. But most importantly I learned something about the power of narrative. Narrative that a viewer brings. Narrative that you can guide and that which you can hope to suggest.
Sorry, didnt mean to write an artist statement, it was just the first thing popped into my head.

 

[mshchem]

Hey. Sounds like an interesting collection

 

[Daniela]

Hi!
I'd love it if you created a thread to post those found pictures, and we could exchange ideas about the narratives that come up

 

[VinceInMT]

…..I worked my way through school at a film lab, a factory really. The kind of place drug stores and supermarkets sent their customers film. It was a great job, lots of down time waiting for the trucks to come in with all the envelopes that we would process and get ready for the night shift who would print and then send back out the next morning...

Welcome. I too worked in a photo lab back in the day, 1975-1979. I was on the night shift, 10pm-6am, and started as a film cutter (manually cut processed film into strips of 4 frames each) before working my way up to printer (on a Kodak 2620 machine), and then into quality control (mixed the chemicals, tracked print quality, etc.). Started at $3/hr and was making $5/hr when I left. It allowed me to attend college during the day which I did on the GI Bill. I didn’t keep many photos but did come away with some Kodak memorabilia.

 

[VinceInMT]

Hi!
I'd love it if you created a thread to post those found pictures, and we could exchange ideas about the narratives that come up

An acquaintance of mine collects photos (and lots of other stuff) and builds narratives around them. She just had an exhibition open at our art museum:

https://www.artmuseum.org/project/jane-waggoner-deschner-remember-me/

 

[Daniela]

An acquaintance of mine collects photos (and lots of other stuff) and builds narratives around them. She just had an exhibition open at our art museum:

https://www.artmuseum.org/project/jane-waggoner-deschner-remember-me/

Oh, wow, what a beautiful mixed media project! I wish I could make it there! Thank you for sharing.

 

[Sirius Glass]

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Welcome to APUG Photrio!!​

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Welcome to Photrio!

 

[Bosliper]

Hi!
I'd love it if you created a thread to post those found pictures, and we could exchange ideas about the narratives that come up

I will find some scans this weekend and post a few

 

[Bosliper]

Oh, wow, what a beautiful mixed media project! I wish I could make it there! Thank you for sharing.

very interesting how a photo is lost and finds itself embroidered in a Montana art museum.

 

[Bosliper]

3 that caught my eye 40 years ago.

 

[Daniela]

Those are awesome, Bosliper!
The first one looks funny at first, but when I opened it, it looked quite disturbing. It doesn't really look like they're having fun necessarily...the mantle and ferns behind suggest a domestic setting, but the ferns look oddly placed. Were they celebrating something, probably religious, given their suits? So puzzling...
The second one! WTF?
The third one: looked up Wanship. 400 inhabitants. Someone from there can probably identify this person.

Is there anything written on the back?

 

[Bosliper]

I agree the first one is deceptive most likely a wedding or some such get together. But the older fellow looks a bit like a corpse being lifted into his box. The second most likely came from a police photographer. The lab I worked for handled the film for many police departments. These were all photos I would have salvaged from the garbage, ending up in the garbage most likely for printing errors or scratched, something of that sort.
I believe story comes from juxtaposition. 3 being the ideal. One to introduce the characters, 2 describes the event and 3 an outcome.