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sweethearts in photo booths (1920s-1960s)

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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever - 1980s Volume 1 - Flashbak

In the 1980s hair metal was huge, and millions of teenagers were in their bedrooms dreaming of making it big. Some of you took snapshots. So

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Some unspecified musicians. One... - Still Livin' the Blues

Some unspecified musicians. One has an old acoustic guitar, while the other has a homemade box bass. The bass guitar appears to have one st

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source image 

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ca. 1880’s, [tintype of a musical performer]

via Airform Archives

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During the early 20th century, paper moon photo shoots were a common, inexpensive souvenir at fairs, carnivals, etc.  This one is most likely c. 1920s-1930s.  Poor guy.  (via)

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Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

Leftwich - Jamerson Family Photograph Collection.

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Anon., USA, ca. 1910s

Real photo postcard, 5 ½ x 3 ½ ins. (13.5 x 8.5 cm) 

Written verso ’This is my father and sister with masks on, don’t you think they look pretty’.

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Anon., USA, ca. 1940s

Snapshot, 3 x 4 ins. (7.5 x 10 cm)

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On this day in 1888, George Eastman patented the very first roll film camera and registered Kodak as a trademark. It was a revolutionary moment in photography, allowing it for the first time to be truly portable. ⠀ ⠀ The first of these cameras were simple, leather-covered wooden boxes – small and light enough to be held in the hands. Taking a photograph with it was very easy, requiring only three simple actions; turning the key (to wind on the film); pulling the string (to set the shutter); and pressing the button (to take the photograph). There wasn’t even a viewfinder – the camera was simply pointed in the direction of the subject to be photographed. The resulting snapshots were circular and only two and a half inches in diameter. The Kodak was sold already loaded with enough paper-based roll film to take one hundred photographs. After the film had been exposed, the entire camera was returned to the factory for the film to be developed and printed. The camera, reloaded with fresh film, was then returned to its owner, together with a set of prints. To sum up the Kodak system, Eastman devised the brilliantly simple sales slogan: ‘You press the button, we do the rest.’ (See more on the site – click link in bio and search “kodak”)⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #photography #earlyphotography #kodak #blackandwhite #onthisday #otd #circles #round https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ALYfdH2xS/?igshid=1o9k5zwftaw7k

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First photo booth! 

From the VSW Soibelman Syndicate News Agency Archive

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I suppose I am not alone in feeling that something is lost when a great painting is restored. Yes, now we can see what the original viewers saw, or at least the restorers’ idea of what that was. And that is valuable. But we have lost a bit of what we normally see in an old object. The...

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People in snapshots aren’t necessarily friendly to the camera. They wear expressions of surprise, dismay, anger, embarrassment, they cover their faces or the lens, they make “go away” gestures (or ruder ones), and so on. Such images are essentially missing from documentary art photography....

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(#18) via lesphotographes.com Geoffrey Batchen's writings on vernacular photography.