One of my new hobbies is dropping into thrift stores and tearing through old bins of photos - it's sort of like Tumblr IRL. In these few post-collegiate years I've found myself drawn towards beautiful images wherever I find them, not necessarily sequestered in Vogue. Part of it is simply becoming more familiar with photography and the elements of a great picture...another factor is the excitement of finding stuff secondhand. As I've found myself drawn toward vintage and thrifted clothing, so too I've found myself hunting in a similar manner for the images I consume.
All of these are photos I found at one particularly plentiful thrift shop on my street. All of them were, I believe, taken with run-of-the mill disposable cameras and scanned by moi at a FedEx Office, on a scanner that was a bit crap and I think also dirty. Sorry about that. They're all portraits (with some pretty greenery thrown in the mix, so sue me) and quite a few of them have a Nan Goldin thing going on, with maybe some shades of Walter Pfeiffer. I don't really know how copyright works in this instance so I guess any one of the people who took these could sue me? I'll take my chances...
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That shirtless guy? There was a whole series of him in one bin. I love to imagine what scenario created that particular body (zing! because he's shirtless) of work...and that shot of the guy at the dinner table, with the bottle of wine/bubbly in the foreground? Oh, man, somebody got some after that picture.
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