#obscure photography

[drum-cu-naluci]

"M-am uitat să văd Luna răsărind | Şi-am văzut Muma Pădurii viind"

[kaouyana]

abandoned house in the middle of the woods.

photographed with an OLYMPUS E-M5II and retouched with GIMP 2.10.30.

[musubiki]

danmarch 🐉💎

[somos-deseos]

Blues Room: Childhood.

[ebrusidar]

Clarity

[jarrimimram]

20210701_L1020660_nb

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[daguerreotyping]

Daguerreotype of two men, affectionately entwined, circa 1845-50. Source: Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 by David Deitcher. This book is also available to read for free on Open Library, though the scan quality is a little rough. I've just acquired a used copy and it's so worth it, not only for the many lovely reproductions but also for Deitcher's writing, which is beautiful and I imagine very relevant to the interests of many viewers of this tumblr:

Anonymity, and the uncertainty it perpetuates, facilitate a kind of pleasure that would be more difficult to sustain under the potentially harsh, and always more limiting, details of a more concrete historical intelligence. Research into the gay history of nineteenth-century London prompted one writer to ask: "Do we view it with dismay, since it is a record of sorrow, of powerlessness, a record of lives wrecked? Or is it possible to read even these texts, written as they were by journalists, policemen and court clerks, with delight, as precious traces of dangerous, pleasurable, complicated gay lives?" Uncertain of anything that actually transpired between the men in such a photograph, the collector is free to imagine whatever he pleases. Immersed in their appearance, he remains ignorant of any tragedy that might have befallen them, or of any crime they may have committed or been punished for.

[johbeil]

Look through an obscured window

into the room behind it and to the window at the other end. Rolleiflex SL35 E with 50 mm Zeiss Planar on Foma 100 B&W film.

[drum-cu-naluci]

I want to thank the person that threw the flowers for making this photo possible

[ginaiacob]

A dream...

[an-obscure-corner]

[belovedapollo]

I received my first Christmas present 📚

reblog is ok, don’t repost

[ebrusidar]

Living in

[margueritapassion0]

PS2 aesthetics: "Obscure" (2005)

[nofaithleft]

Photo manipulation / base photography from Icon Magazine Italia (not official or a collaboration)