Photographic Arcadia
They weren't really there . . . how I love them for pretending. Arcade photos, photo booths, painted backdrops, novelty props . . . so real simply because they were not real at all. Moments which never existed, caught for ever, dearer than reality.
13
2012
Reblogged from adventures-of-the-blackgang :
L. Kauffmann - “The Little Explorers” Albumen cabinet card 1885
Novelty Photograph -Studio portrait of five children off exploring in a boat set adrift on a river which is filled in by ink wash.
7
2012
Reblogged from tuesday-johnson :
![c. 1900, [portrait of a couple in front of a paper moon]
via Harvard University, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Department of Photographs](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw7u0t3rCL1qa51rdo1_400.jpg)
c. 1900, [portrait of a couple in front of a paper moon]
via Harvard University, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Department of Photographs
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