One of my greatest finds as an amateur photo collector
is this unassuming 1920s photo album picked up at a Brooklyn flea market.
The album's spare 10 pages seem to trace a full, yet, emotionally complex
life. But whose life? The album has no names, dates, locations
and no apparent chronology. In the end it is an enigma, a generative story
machine, with perhaps more to say about the viewer than its phantom subject.
I showed the album to some friends and asked them to tell me what they
see.
Many thanks to:
Habiba Noor
Katrina Gould
Garth Upshaw
David Cerny