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Denver, CO - Purple Moment - Wednesday, April 27th, 2005 : goo
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oops wrecked alot....
I zoomed in and cropped out the cops that were in the background just for fun... its hard to see but they are there.
Here's what I wanted to share with you today from a box of old photos of my city that I found. I loved how they just capture a moment in time... the people seem to be going to work or maybe even to a train station or something.
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Anonymous (dhcp-hss231-97.sfsu.edu): 28th Apr 2005 - 00:06 GMT
i love the old car crashes, the police in the background gives me the shivers. very ghost like. :)
elaine: 28th Apr 2005 - 07:03 GMT
in the last one somehow they look like they are cuddling. it is great when you find a hook in to old pictures. i read an article once by a woman who had collected postcards of paris street scenes, and in one of them a man is arranging his flies coming out of a toilet, which is a very human moment from the 1920s suddenly, and these details have that too, because of the undone-ness of things
Peter: 28th Apr 2005 - 13:37 GMT
I like it because, as times pass, only the aesthetic/pretty/postcard-ish moments are preserved... its not often you see such random, candid photos... of people simply walking around, of car crashes... from that period of time. awesome.
GGP: 30th Jun 2005 - 12:08 GMT
that last one is especially wonderful--abstract and geometric; the sun hitting the car door handle moves me.
elaine: the punctum, for you GGP
aer suzuki: 23rd Sep 2006 - 01:15 GMT
nice find...i know this is an old post but here's a related link anyway:
www.moderna.org/lookatme
~a collection of old found photos.
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