Found Photo: Fourni (Φουρνή, Κρήτη) Crete.

8 Responses to “Found Photo: Fourni (Φουρνή, Κρήτη) Crete.”

1. Cooper Renner on November 22nd, 2008 at 8:32 am

   Who can imagine an ‘official’ photograph as well-done as this one? Amazing. It looks like a book jacket.

2. Christopher Walken on November 22nd, 2008 at 8:52 am

   Cooper, I think it is military papers, it is in book format with hand written entries dated 1946-1948. It would appear that his name was Ιωάννης (John).

3. Phil Bebbington on November 22nd, 2008 at 8:54 am

   Sorry Cooper, I forgot to log out of Christopher Walken

4. Sheila Ryan on November 22nd, 2008 at 9:44 am

   I am struck once again by a sense I have in looking at photographs from earlier times that . . . people had different faces. And yes, I am aware that along with differences in style of dress — a greater degree of formality even in informal situations, there are different photographic conventions and different notions about presenting oneself to the camera that account for some degree of the difference I see. Still, I’ve looked at an awful lot of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs of ‘ordinary people’, and I’m telling you: People had faces that you just do not see anymore.

5. Cooper Renner on November 22nd, 2008 at 1:17 pm

   I agree with Sheila completely. Group photos taken at schools around 1900–amazing.

6. Sheila Ryan on November 22nd, 2008 at 1:19 pm

   School yearbooks dating backward from the 1940s. Before teenagers were invented.

7. Sheila Ryan on November 22nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm

   Baseball players of the 1920s and earlier.

   And stars of the silent screen.

8. Phil Bebbington on November 22nd, 2008 at 1:24 pm

   All I can say is yes, images I hadn’t thought of but right on the money!

   MMMMmmm, I do have a book of ‘Travelling Thieves & Pickpockets’ perhaps scans to follow

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