Comments on: Found Photo: Fourni (Φουρνή, Κρήτη) Crete.

By: Phil Bebbington

Phil Bebbington — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:24:47 +0000

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

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:20:16 +0000

Baseball players of the 1920s and earlier.

And stars of the silent screen.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:19:31 +0000

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

By: Cooper Renner

Cooper Renner — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:17:35 +0000

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

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:44:25 +0000

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.

By: Phil Bebbington

Phil Bebbington — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:54:33 +0000

Sorry Cooper, I forgot to log out of Christopher Walken

By: Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:52:40 +0000

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).

By: Cooper Renner

Cooper Renner — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:32:36 +0000

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