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'Strange Closets' features Vintage Photographs (24-Oct-10) |
| Collecting Found Vintage Photographs Featured in Newsweek (15-Sep-10) | |
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'Strange Closets' features Vintage Photographs
Sunday, 24 October, 2010
Trending: vintage photographs (featured on blog Strange Closets, October 21, 2010)
One of my prized possessions is a 30’s-era photo album, which I found nearly intact at Old Sau’s Resale and Antique Shop on Lincoln Avenue just after I first moved to Chicago in 1997. Its black and white photos chronicle the friendship of two young couples who travel, picnic and celebrate the holidays together. A large, gray-haired woman wearing a long house dress and round wire glasses appears from time-to-time sporting a stern, almost scowling expression, but I love her anyway. I like to imagine that tough is her schtick and the whole family loves her, but she was probably just mean. As I flip through the embossed album’s black pages, summer turns to winter, babies show up and everybody starts to fill out and look older. I wonder what happened to them. And what about the missing photos? Did they just fall out over the years? Were they snatched up by family and friends? Or did they get scooped up by somebody like my friend Albert Tanquero, a vintage photography dealer? click here for full article
Photograph: Nathan Kirkman for Chicago Home + Garden