A Flea Market Album
2007, series of four three-minute videos
One of my greatest finds as an amateur photo collector
is this unassuming 1920s photo album discovered at a Brooklyn flea market.
The album's spare 10 pages seem to trace a full, yet , emotionally complex
life. But whose life is it? 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.
