W/NW: old pictures found

[Darkhorse]

I found some old negs from my family's trip to Disney World in 1986. At the end of the roll there was a scramble of images - a quadruple exposure. Something obviously went wrong with the camera (I believe it was a Canon AE of some sort but I could be wrong).

The images weren't printed out by the photofinishers in 1986 so I scanned it to see what it looked like. I loved how it turned out - pure unintended art, I thought.

Here's a hotlink to it since it's longish:
http://formerairline.com/wp-content/gallery/random-stuff/unintentional.jpg

 

[charjohncarter]

Right, that is a very good but unintended multiple exposure.

 

[Al Kaplan]

Years ago I rewound a partial roll, reloaded it later to finish it off, and got a double exposure. Two friends of mine in fairly tight framing, cropped at the chest, in 3/4 profile each talking on the phone. In the double exposure they were against a dark background and the heads were facing each other. That was somewhere in the early 1970's. I should go looking through the contact sheets.

 

[Mackinaw]

This is from a box of old glass 4 X 5 negatives that sat in my parent's basement for years. Probably taken about 1910 - 1915.

Jim B.

 

[ebolton]

In the exchange area of our town dump, where you put things that are still useable for others to pick up. Somebody was apparently trying to give away their family history.

 

[Darkhorse]

I blogged about a couple of other found-photography I've come across. I've categorized the entries here: http://formerairline.com/?cat=106

I had a relative pass away a few years ago and I was given bunch of photos - still in the original pouch from the photofinisher's complete with negatives - of a flood that gutted my home town of London Ontario Canada in 1937. The negatives didn't scan as well as the prints, so I scanned them along with the captions on the back of each photo (which I then inverted with PS and placed on a black matte background).

The other instance was last fall at the Long Beach Coin Expo. I found a box of black and white transparencies full of old family vacations. I suspect most of them were dupes of originals - but I think a couple were original photographs.

 

[MickH]

Here's an oddity from the family album.

Taken by my Great Uncle in Berlin-Spandau probably about 1936 or 1937 judging by my mum in the background who was born in 1930.

The baby to her right grew up to be very famous in his homeland, and played a starring role in one of the greatest westerns ever made. He's my "six degrees of separation" link to the Hollywood legends of the 1960's.

That's Opa on the far left with the dodgy moustaches (they say we look alike) and his big brother on the right, the photographer, Gross-Onkel Fritz.

Opa served in the Wehrmacht and was luckily taken prisoner by the Americans in Italy, spending several months in Bari "The best time of my life!". He returned to work on the Berlin trams and buses until retirement.

The boy in the Lederhosen is my Onkel Wolfgang who fared much worse, being taken by the Russians on the Eastern Front. After spending much time as slave labour he was eventually released, suffering from dysentery and God knows what, in Poland to make his way home on foot. He arrived back to a devastated Berlin looking like a walking skeleton. He raised six kids and died at the age of 51 of complications caused by alcoholism.

The boy in the front (cousin Herbert) was killed in WW2. His brother, Hanz, was a Luftwaffe pilot who also ranks amongst the fallen.

Oma, behind Fritz, sits next to her own mother and flanking my mum on the other side is the baby's mother and Fritz's wife Bertha.

Mum's the last "man" standing from this shot.

Cheers.

 

[chris91387]

Here's an oddity from the family album.

Taken by my Great Uncle in Berlin-Spandau probably about 1936 or 1937 judging by my mum in the background who was born in 1930.

The baby to her right grew up to be very famous in his homeland, and played a starring role in one of the greatest westerns ever made. He's my "six degrees of separation" link to the Hollywood legends of the 1960's.

That's Opa on the far left with the dodgy moustaches (they say we look alike) and his big brother on the right, the photographer, Gross-Onkel Fritz.

Opa served in the Wehrmacht and was luckily taken prisoner by the Americans in Italy, spending several months in Bari "The best time of my life!". He returned to work on the Berlin trams and buses until retirement.

The boy in the Lederhosen is my Onkel Wolfgang who fared much worse, being taken by the Russians on the Eastern Front. After spending much time as slave labour he was eventually released, suffering from dysentery and God knows what, in Poland to make his way home on foot. He arrived back to a devastated Berlin looking like a walking skeleton. He raised six kids and died at the age of 51 of complications caused by alcoholism.

The boy in the front (cousin Herbert) was killed in WW2. His brother, Hanz, was a Luftwaffe pilot who also ranks amongst the fallen.

Oma, behind Fritz, sits next to her own mother and flanking my mum on the other side is the baby's mother and Fritz's wife Bertha.

Mum's the last "man" standing from this shot.

Cheers.

that's a pretty incredible photograph with an interesting story behind it. thanks for sharing.

- chris

 

[peter_n]

Two realities in one shot: the Wall divides suburbia in Berlin, Germany. Taken in 1967.

 

[charjohncarter]

Good blog, Darkhorse.

 

[venchka]

Holmesville, Mississippi

Holmesville, Mississippi

Thanksgiving. 1973. Rapid Omega 100. 90mm lens. Tri-X Pro. D-76.