BEST PLACE TO BUY SOMEONE ELSE'S MEMORIES:

....... the world is an amazing and horrifying place, and the proof lies in .......

....... (The Found Photo Guy's) photo stall at the labyrinthine Melrose Trading Post.

Here are countless examples of the Freak Parade that is the human race. Each box is filled with thousands of little photographic moments, snapshots that depict not only a person or people smiling (or crying, or glaring), but contextual tidbits — a revealing Streisand poster on a back wall, dying roses by the side of the bed, a wine stain on a white carpet, a crumb of food on a bottom lip — that pose more questions than they answer. Our favorite is the shot of newlyweds toasting directly below a wall-hung (and upside-down) horseshoe — a relationship cursed from the start, and captured on film. Or the Gerhard Richter–esque blurred image of a red-lipsticked, bouffant-wearing woman posing in front of a battleship. Or the muted mis-shot of a woman’s green high-heels on lush blue carpet, which could be a lost William Eggleston.

“As soon as a picture leaves its family, it becomes a whole different thing. It becomes art,” (The Found Photo Guy)says.

On any given Sunday, (The Found Photo Guy's) booth is a great place to bond with entertaining strangers. The people who dig through these boxes are a special breed, those who prefer that the people-watching fun include ghosts.......

LA Weekly

Best Of LA review by Randal Roberts

The Found Photo Guy
Booth 67c
Melrose Trading Post
at Melrose/Fairfax
Los Angeles,California

Sundays, 8 am - 6 pm

In addition to a treasure trove of found photos, the collection also includes

art photographs -

most often processed in the old school darkroom from the original negative and signed by the photographer -

and archival images -

from an ever growing selection of original negatives - including accidental masterpieces from our collection of found negatives.

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to track the photoblog as photographs appear on The Found Photo Guy's internet archive

and for updates on found photo discoveries as they are added to The Found Photo Guy's inventory.

VISIT THE FOUND PHOTO GUY'S

outdoor market booth when you are in Los Angeles. Sort through the bins and mingle with other followers as The Found Photo Guy feeds their visual addictions.

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Ask The Found Photo Guy about pricing/availability of Darkroom and/or Digital Photographs for selected images in the archive.*

*images in the public domain,
* images on which copyright is held
by The Found Photo Guy,
* images on which permission has been granted by agreement with the photographer/copyright holder.

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