These photos were found in a box of 35mm slide transparencies at a Santa Barbara yard sale. There is something so sad about the relics of someone’s life sitting in the sun, anonymously, late in the day. Judging by my friends’ reactions, buying other people’s photos is crazy, but the fact that they were slides, and so old … they had a sense of mystery.
These ones capture an almost mythic ’70s; innocent nudity, a sweet, earthy, back-to-nature hippie-ness…
How did something like this end up in a yard sale? The people selling it spoke very little English, and appeared to do yard sales professionally. Seems like most of these people would still be alive. Did the photographer die? Or just decide to toss them out?
June 21st, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Kool aid is missing!
June 22nd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I recently saw someones whole collection of their WW2 tour of duty photos from early prewar germany in a bin at an antique store for 50 cents each. There were hundreds and I wanted to buy the whole collection and scan them to the internet for their historical value by the owner wouldn’t budge off the price.
Such a shame to see historical photos of past life like this disappear.
Anytime someone has them at a yard sale snap them up and put them online. the technology already exits to automatically identify places and create composite images from all the 2d images of places on the internet. Soon the power will extend to identifying people from images and one day an ancestor will thank you for saving their ancestor’s photos in a form they could later find them.
What a great way to see the way people really were.
Bet you could identify that distinctive house with some effort. Probably is right on the coast of the pacific judging by the trees and looks like the drop off over the ocean view near san francisco south. probably a famous architect like lautner.
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Do you have better quality copies of these pictures?
Maybe it’s an invasion of privacy, but I’d really like to print and frame some of them. Email me.
June 24th, 2008 at 4:02 am
They’re really cool. Thanks for putting them up - reminds me of a world so many people are drifting to again.
Peace
June 24th, 2008 at 8:42 am
I had my entire life’s worth of photographs stolen from me when someone broke into my storage unit in Huntington Beach, Ca. Later that summer I found some Mexican piece of shit loser selling some of my stolen items at a swap meet. I called the police, but they said without proof, I could not bring charges.
Sorry to be negative on an otherwise interesting post. Its the first thing that came to my mind.
September 20th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
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