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Ignatius Maximus Anonymous

The Unknown Photographer – (b. 1900 – d. 1999) from the Department of Photographic Records at the Ontological Museum

Aug 3 2018

Girl in a Boat

Jul 22 2018

Two Cowboys

Jul 22 2018

UFO with a Smiling Girl

Jul 22 2018

Eating Oysters at the Beach

Jul 22 2018

Out on a Sunday Afternoon

Jul 22 2018

Snapshot Photography: The Lives of Images (The MIT Press)

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Girl in a Boat

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1952 possibly in a Suburb of Los Angeles, CA

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The Picnic

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Oops! Nice Shoes Anyway

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Girl in a Boat

Posted On : August 3, 2018 Published By : touchon
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1952 possibly in a Suburb of Los Angeles, CA

Posted On : August 3, 2018 Published By : touchon
Category:
  • BLACK AND WHITE VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHY
  • Ignatius Maximus Anonymous

The Picnic

Posted On : August 3, 2018 Published By : touchon
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  • BLACK AND WHITE VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHY
  • Ignatius Maximus Anonymous

Oops! Nice Shoes Anyway

Posted On : July 24, 2018 Published By : touchon
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  • Color Photography

El Mariachi

Posted On : July 23, 2018 Published By : touchon
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Other Pictures: Anonymous Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection

With dedication and intensity, Thomas Walther, a visionary collector of photography, has been sorting through the seemingly superfluous vernacular photography of this century. Other Pictures is his selection of over Continue Reading

Posted On : July 23, 2018 Published By : touchon
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  • Color Photography
  • Ignatius Maximus Anonymous

The Baby

The early American style of home decor, as seen in this photograph, was prevalent in the 1960s and 70s.

Posted On : July 23, 2018 Published By : touchon
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  • Color Photography
  • Ignatius Maximus Anonymous

Sporting a New Bathing Suit and Hairdoo

In the Summer Time 1971. The effect of the Civil Rights Movement brought a renewed sense of identity to the African-American community, which also resulted in a redefinition of personal style that Continue Reading

Posted On : July 23, 2018 Published By : touchon
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  • Color Photography
  • Ignatius Maximus Anonymous

New House, New Car, New Clothes.

If you notice the stucco walls on the houses in this photograph there is a good chance that this is a neighborhood in either Albuquerque or Santa Fe, New Mexico Continue Reading

Posted On : July 23, 2018 Published By : touchon
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  • Ignatius Maximus Anonymous

Three Sisters

Posted On : July 23, 2018 Published By : touchon
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  • Ignatius Maximus Anonymous

Out for the Afternoon

Two couples from circa 1915 posing in an interestingly symmetrical way.

Posted On : July 23, 2018 Published By : touchon
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In the Vernacular: Photography of the Everyday

Since the inception of photography in the early nineteenth century, photographs have been made, used, collected, and discarded in greatly increasing numbers. Despite the photograph’s persistence in daily life, until Continue Reading

Posted On : July 22, 2018 Published By : touchon
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Tattered and Lost: Vernacular Photographs (Volume 1)

Are you fascinated by vintage snapshots? Do you look at old photographs and wonder about the stories they tell? Then Tattered and Lost: Vernacular Photographs should be of interest to you. The Continue Reading

Posted On : July 22, 2018 Published By : touchon
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Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard

BUY NOW: Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard The advent of the Kodak camera in 1888 made photography accessible to amateurs as well as to professionals. Artists were not Continue Reading

Posted On : July 22, 2018 Published By : touchon

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