Old Photos

kobe: 27th Apr 2005 - 16:25 GMT

how haunting and lovely. the old car crashes are freaky looking.

Anonymous (dhcp-hss231-97.sfsu.edu): 28th Apr 2005 - 00:06 GMT

i love the old car crashes, the police in the background gives me the shivers. very ghost like. :)

elaine: 28th Apr 2005 - 07:03 GMT

in the last one somehow they look like they are cuddling. it is great when you find a hook in to old pictures. i read an article once by a woman who had collected postcards of paris street scenes, and in one of them a man is arranging his flies coming out of a toilet, which is a very human moment from the 1920s suddenly, and these details have that too, because of the undone-ness of things

Peter: 28th Apr 2005 - 13:37 GMT

I like it because, as times pass, only the aesthetic/pretty/postcard-ish moments are preserved... its not often you see such random, candid photos... of people simply walking around, of car crashes... from that period of time. awesome.

Lili: 19th Jun 2005 - 11:52 GMT

I say that the subjective is in a very real sense objective.

GGP: 30th Jun 2005 - 12:08 GMT

that last one is especially wonderful--abstract and geometric; the sun hitting the car door handle moves me.

aer suzuki: 23rd Sep 2006 - 01:15 GMT

nice find...i know this is an old post but here's a related link anyway:

www.moderna.org/lookatme
~a collection of old found photos.