These
vintage photographs are "found" images, lost or discarded by unknown amateur
photographers.
They could have disappeared forever, or stayed hidden in dusty drawers.
Cat Island brings you these wonderful images as home-published blank cards.
Want to know
more about "found photos?" Check out these books on Amazon.com:
Other
Pictures: Anonymous Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection,
by Thomas Walther.
Found
Lives: A Collection of Found Photographs, by James Nocito.
Summer
Vacation: Found Photographs, by Sharon Delano.
Photobooth,
by Babbette Hines.
Floh,
by Tacita Dean.
"Photographs are, of course, artifacts. But their
appeal is that they also seem,
in a world littered with photographic relics, to have the status of found
objects--
unpremediated slices of the world. Thus, they trade simultaneously on
the prestige of art
and the magic of the real. They are clouds of fantasy and pellets of information."
-- Susan Sontag, "On Photography"
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