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From the Anonymous Collection: Fire and a Boat

I'm feeling a bit of writer's block this morning, so I'm just going to shorten things up and share a couple of images from my anonymous collection.

Anonymous Photo: As Flames Consume

Anonymous Photo: A Man Sleeps on a Boat

The burning building photograph is the one that kicked off this hobby for me. I never had any thoughts about collecting non-fine-art photographs until this print was in my hands back in 2003. I even put it back and almost didn't purchase it. I remember almost leaving the store when I had an overwhelming feeling that I was making a mistake by not purchasing it, so I raced back to the box of prints it was in and made the purchase.

Whenever I start thumbing through a stack of photographic prints at an estate sale, or antique store, I think somewhere in my subconscious, I am secretly hunting for photographs that I wish I had taken myself. I also end up imagining a scene in the far future where someone is flipping through a stack of prints that I created. A few of those prints strike the right chords and they end up taking them home. Not because of a famous name attached to image, but just because they love the image. A sad, romanticized, zero-gratification aspect of my own photographer which I'll almost certainly not be aware of if I succeed with it. Yet, I'm cool with that.

I'm going to embed an interesting conversation with Robert Flynn Johnson that I found via citysnaps.net on the topic of anonymous photography. Robert Flynn Johnson is the author of Anonymous: Enigmatic Images from Unknown Photographers, a photo book about collecting vernacular photography.

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2 Responses to From the Anonymous Collection: Fire and a Boat

  1. Whitney

    I listened to that conversation you embedded. It's very interesting, although it was annoying that nearly every person who called in had to preface the fact that they are artists or photographers. There is a sort of artsy-er than thou kind of feeling when people do that. (Sorry, I just ranted on your very lovely post about anonymous photographs.)

  2. Dave Doolin

    These are really good.

    I love buying art myself. Can't afford to buy as much as I want. Would definitely buy at estate sales if I ever went to any.

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