#ragpicker

[quinn10121012]

One goblin’s trash is another’s treasure, and nobody knows this better than Flek Snaggletoe! A ragpicker and junk collector by trade, Flek scavenges the detritus left behind by the tall-folk for anything of value - of course, “value” is subjective when it comes to moth-eaten scraps of cloth, but at least it’s enough to fetch her a few coppers!

[charnel-grounds]

Carl Lundgren - Ragpicker

[less-ismore]

Eugène Atget, Chiffonnier, Paris, 1899-1900.

MoMA

[soulogue]

[less-ismore]

“Thus, in the end this writer rightly stands alone. A malcontent, not a leader. No pioneer, but a spoilsport. And if we wish to gain a clear picture of him in the isolation of his trade, what we will see is a ragpicker, at daybreak, picking up rags of speech and verbal scraps with his stick and tossing them, grumbling and growling, a little drunk, into his cart, not without letting one or another of those faded cotton remnants-"humanity, " "inwardness," or "absorption"-flutter derisively in the wind. A ragpicker, early on, at the dawn of the day of the revolution.” Walter Benjamin, “An outsider makes his mark” , 1930.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Parisian ragpicker on a vintage postcard

[jegrep]

Jewish rag picker, Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1911

[rainbow-brite13]

Bonus #WorldTheatreDay post from #BennySouthstreet, the #RagPicker, and #CaptainBluntschili! 🎭 #drama #theater #GuysAndDolls #TheMadWomanOfChaillot #ArmsAndTheMan https://www.instagram.com/p/B-QcogJF42e/?igshid=1l2ruz9d3vtn1