Permenance

As Im on Summer break Ive started scanning the collection of slides that I purchased on eBay back in March and posting them on Flickr. They probably number around 800 and are primarily an entire output from one keen family photographer in the 1950`s to early 1970`s. For variety there is also a handful of shop bought souvenir slides too from holiday locations.

As you can imagine they are mostly of holiday and family events during that time and look pretty much like my own family photographs – although they are often slightly creepy and I can imagine finding myself picking out a young Fred West  in one.  Also some of the captures are just plain weird – check out the woman’s on the left`s  eyes and body language in this one…

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Im intending to use these for a new set of illustrations at some point later in the year but for the moment Im just enjoying the monotonous, uncreative aspect of scanning and uploading. Ive also set up a tumblr blog here called Permenance which will post daily links to images posted on Flickr (where they will appear in one big lump in this set). Jim Davies has also being playing detective and placing some of the images on Google Maps which is an interesting idea to develop at some point. (UPDATE – Ive started a new set on Flickr detailing any locations of the photos found via google street map – please feel free to have a browse and see if you can find any others and post a comment/link with the photo if you do!)

Ive not started making any illustrations as yet but this photo montage from Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin is really floating my boat compositionally with its use of the same figure from different photos…