One of my greatest finds as an amateur photo collector is an unassuming 1920s photo album picked up at a Brooklyn flea market. The album's spare 10 pages seem to trace a full, yet , emotionally complex life. But whose life? The album has no names, dates, locations and no apparent chronology. In the end it is an enigma, a generative story machine, with perhaps more to say about the viewer than its phantom subject. I showed the album to some friends and asked them to tell me what they see.
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One of my greatest finds as an amateur photo collector is an unassuming 1920s photo album picked up at a Brooklyn flea market. The album's spare 10 pages seem to trace a full, yet , emotionally complex life. But whose life? The album has no names, dates, locations and no apparent chronology. In the end it is an enigma, a generative story machine, with perhaps more to say about the viewer than its phantom subject. I showed the album to some friends and asked them to tell me what they see.
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- Year Created: 2007
- Submitted to ArtBase: Thursday Dec 6th, 2007
- Original Url: http://solublefish.tv/solublefish/marketalbum.shtml
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Work Credits:
- Will Luers, creator
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