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THE PHOTO MAN
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....... the world is an amazing and horrifying place, and the proof lies in .......
....... (The Photo Man's) stall at the labyrinthine Melrose Trading Post.
Here are countless examples of the Freak Parade that is the human race. Each box is filled with thousands of little photographic moments, snapshots that depict not only a person or people smiling (or crying, or glaring), but contextual tidbits — a revealing Streisand poster on a back wall, dying roses by the side of the bed, a wine stain on a white carpet, a crumb of food on a bottom lip — that pose more questions than they answer. Our favorite is the shot of newlyweds toasting directly below a wall-hung (and upside-down) horseshoe — a relationship cursed from the start, and captured on film. Or the Gerhard Richter–esque blurred image of a red-lipsticked, bouffant-wearing woman posing in front of a battleship. Or the muted mis-shot of a woman’s green high-heels on lush blue carpet, which could be a lost William Eggleston.
“As soon as a picture leaves its family, it becomes a whole different thing. It becomes art,” (photoateur)says.
On any given Sunday, (THE PHOTO MAN's) booth is a great place to bond with entertaining strangers. The people who dig through these boxes are a special breed, those who prefer that the people-watching fun include ghosts.......
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THE PHOTO MAN
Booth B68
Melrose Trading Post
at Melrose/Fairfax
Los Angeles,California
Sundays, 8 am - 6 pm
In addition to a treasure trove of found photos, the collection also includes
art photographs -
most often processed in the old school darkroom from the original negative and signed by the photographer -
and archival images -
from an ever growing selection of original negatives - including accidental masterpieces from our collection of found negatives.
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The Found Photo Man is known to appear with thousands of found photos at gatherings of Cinefamily’s Lost and Found Film Club each month at the Silent Theatre in Los Angeles.
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A blur exists between found photography and life itself in the mind of a photo collector..
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Tired CLown, 1946
Clown: Arnie Honkala
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Photographer: Kenneth Heilbron
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Prom Pooh
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Prom Couture
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Chicken Prom Dates
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This photograph, gorgeous in its' tragic sadness, depicts a lone black woman in a bonnet standing near a slave pen, a structure used by slave dealers to hold enslaved people temporarily before they were moved futher south for sale.
Taken in Alexandria, Virginia
Derived from a glass negative.
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"Rex Theatre For Colored People"
Leland, Mississippi
June 1937
Photographer: Dorothy Lange
Photographers working for the Farm Security Administration Historical Section were encouraged to document continuity and change in many aspects of life in America They were particularly encouraged to photograph billboards and signs as one indicator of such developments, and that search produced haunting photographs of signs enforcing racial discrimination.
#art#street photography#photography#black and white#black and white photography#civil rights#discrimination#Depression#1930's
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Black Panther Convention
Lincoln Memorial, June 1970
Close-up of Participant
#art#photography#street photography#black and white#black and white photography#civil rights#Black Panthers#1970's
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Photographer: Michael Wolf
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