Found Photo Focus: Tattered Memories

This tattered vintage snapshot from 1939, exemplifies the wonderful and mysterious ways photography intersects with people's lives and their private domestic rituals. Vigorously ripped up, repeatedly folded or accidentally left in a pocket and put in the wash, the photo remained precious to its owner and was carefully taped back together.  While we will never know if their love lasted, the worn voice of the photograph remains preserved. View more collectable vintage photographs.

For The Curious: Photo ID Badges

Vintage employee identification badges embrace both the tradition of photographs used as jewelry (mourning pins, rings and novelty pin back buttons) and the documetary practice of using photos as instruments of authority (mugshots, passport and license photos). A combination memory object, artifact of business and cultural history, vintage employee badges look to us now like wearable time capsules. For purchase information and more curiosities 

Exhibitions, Books & News

Project B got a facelift! Enjoy our bold new website design & a Sweetheart Offer: buy 2 or more photos and get 10% off (ends Feb.14)!

Other Bodies: A Collection of Vernacular Photography, ZieherSmith Gallery, NY, ends Feb. 11, 2012.

Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Feb. 4-May 6, 2012.

Silver, Salt, and Sunlight: Early Photography in Britain and France, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb 7- Aug. 19, 2012.

Vintage Photographs of Arcane Americana by Jim Linderman

Pure Photography by Robert E. Jackson

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