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Favourite obscure photographs

Started by George White, October 09, 2020, 01:12:15 PM

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Cuntbeaks

Would dearly love to get a hold of The Port Glasgow Project by Mark Neville. Apparently every house in Port Glasgow got one for free, and that was that, it was never for sale. The books themselves were hand delivered by local bams, as requested by the artist. Fuck knows how many ended up destroyed as a result.

http://www.markneville.com/the-port-glasgow-book-project



Sebastian Cobb

That's cool as fuck. I work with and know some people round that way, will have to ask them if they've got a copy.

Cuntbeaks

I'm from Port Glasgow, but fortunately moved away in 1994. My family had also moved, so there was nobody I could have prevailed upon to get a look.

I worked with a guy who claimed his sister had one she was gonna chuck out and he would get it for me. Needless to say it never happened.

Jittlebags

Quote from: Elderly Sumo Prophecy on October 09, 2020, 10:08:16 PM
I'm more impressed by the fact that two of the parents are Willie Thorne. Is that even physically possible? Maybe he was a pan dimensional being.

There used to be some memes around about Willie Thorne owning alien tech, so it is feasible.


touchingcloth

Quote from: Jittlebags on October 10, 2020, 02:53:02 PM


"We've found a pipe for your monkey which is a good match for yours. Presumably you'd like some glasses for yourself which match your monkey's?"

"Nah, be reet."

QDRPHNC

The US Library of Congress has a fantastic online archive of public domain images - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/

touchingcloth

Quote from: QDRPHNC on October 10, 2020, 03:21:26 PM
The US Library of Congress has a fantastic online archive of public domain images - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/

I know some people who have worked in BBC Factual, and it seems like the Library of Congress is the source of about 90% of images which appear on screen. Probably made Ken Burns' career, too.

Dex Sawash




petril

Quote from: Dex Sawash on October 10, 2020, 04:58:30 PM


Admission $3
No thanks

headliners are alright, that support act are pish though

These vintage American Hallowe'en photos are quite something. A couple of them featured on the artwork for Faith No More's Sol Invictus album, and they've been collected in a book called Haunted Air: https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/haunted-air-halloween-photos-1.html








Menu

Quote from: Voltan (Man of Steel) on October 10, 2020, 09:50:46 AM
I've posted this before but I love this photo showing my maternal grandfather (born 1896) as a young boy standing next to his father (seated centre), an apparently roguish publican, surrounded by his cronies in the back yard of his pub.



Great to see the original line-up of Blazin Squad again!

jamiefairlie

Quote from: Clatty McCutcheon on October 10, 2020, 10:21:53 PM
These vintage American Hallowe'en photos are quite something. A couple of them featured on the artwork for Faith No More's Sol Invictus album, and they've been collected in a book called Haunted Air: https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/haunted-air-halloween-photos-1.html









Well that's my sleep fucked tonight, cheers.


Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: Clatty McCutcheon on October 10, 2020, 10:21:53 PM
These vintage American Hallowe'en photos are quite something. A couple of them featured on the artwork for Faith No More's Sol Invictus album, and they've been collected in a book called Haunted Air: https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/haunted-air-halloween-photos-1.html









These are good. They actually remind me of some quite bleak photos of patients in mental institutions.

There's nothing too graphic, but they are bleak, I'll not embed just to give people the choice.
https://imgur.com/a/uAsnFZn

They were included as artwork in a bandcamp album I think, sourced from old books on mental health.
https://billseaman.bandcamp.com/album/the-topologies-of-blue

Brundle-Fly



A Victorian Couple Trying Not To Laugh While Getting Their Portraits Done, 1890s

A nice collection of snaps showing they weren't all stick in the muds back then

https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-victorian-era-photos-silly-vintage-photography/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

Glebe

^Yeah that's proper lovely that is.

Ptolemy Ptarmigan

It's been posted here before, but kind of along the same lines, Danish composer Carl Nielsen as a youngster 140 years ago.

   


Glebe

Quote from: Ptolemy Ptarmigan on October 11, 2020, 02:36:23 AM

   

James Bolam and (Googles name) Tim Healy have let themselves go 140 years ago.

Elderly Sumo Prophecy

If I was the photographer I'd tell him to stop pissing about and wasting my expensive film.

Quote from: Elderly Sumo Prophecy on October 09, 2020, 10:46:16 PM
I won't post it, but my favourite obscure photograph is the internet famous one of the man dressed in lingerie with his willy stuck in a car exhaust, as nobody knows who it is and where it was taken. Who is he? Is he still alive? Who is taking the photograph? If he apparently enjoys fucking cars, why does he look so unhappy? Truly the Mona Lisa of our age.

Sadly, he was later diagnosed HGV Positive...

Lisa Jesusandmarychain

Quote from: Glebe on October 11, 2020, 03:25:04 AM
James Bolam and (Googles name) Tim Healy have let themselves go 140 years ago.

You can find two, maybe three Mark E. Smith's in there, too.

Zetetic



One of a number of photographs taken by Jurgen Schadeberg at Ely Hosptial in 1967 for a broadly positive article in The Telegraph titled "a neverending childhood", a few months before the scandal broke and the abandonment of the asylums accelerated.

Along with other stuff, part of the Ely material that the People's Collection Wales hold. Not that obscure, perhaps - Mencap Cymru ran an oral history project called Hidden Not Heard a few years ago on these hospitals, and the above image was prominently used in their materials.

I don't believe they managed to trace her. (I also guess it's unlikely that she was alive by 2014, given how poor life expectancy for individuals with Downs Syndrome was.)

studpuppet

I have a couple of albums from a family friend who worked for London Transport from the 1930s through to the 1970s. I think he was part of the design team for the Routemaster bus, but the albums feature the work he did during and just after the war. The first is an official LT album, showing the building of a Halifax bomber from start to finish by various LT depots.

Full album here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmuhDkY7



The other album is from the immediate aftermath of the war, when he went to Germany as a consultant to get their transport infrastructure up and running again. This one is a personal travelogue of the places he saw, and it's a document of the damage wrought by the kind of planes he helped to build in the first album. It's fascinating because you can see that he's interested in bridges, roads and trams mostly, but in between there are pictures of the Führerbunker and decimated city centres.

Full album here:

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmnQJN6D


Elderly Sumo Prophecy

On the subject of Victorian photos, those ones they took of people who were dead are endlessly fascinating, if a little morbid:



https://www.bygonely.com/creepy-victorian-era/

flotemysost

When I was nine or ten I had a couple of second-hand books by Lynn Lennon which had some great, non-cutesy photos of dogs and cats - I wasn't really taking an active interest in photography at the time, I just loved anything to do with animals, but I still remember those books. Can only find a handful of the images online though.








Mr_Simnock

I have always been a huge fan of early colour photography, so many are, compositional wise, just fantastic

These two from 1913 using the autochrome process method for example, both look as if they could have been taken recently too




Neomod

Quote from: Mr_Simnock on October 11, 2020, 11:49:43 PM
I have always been a huge fan of early colour photography, so many are, compositional wise, just fantastic

These two from 1913 using the autochrome process method for example, both look as if they could have been taken recently too





Lana Del Rey takes notes.

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: Neomod on October 13, 2020, 10:53:02 AM
Lana Del Rey takes notes.

Probably another idea she copied from Mazzy Star.