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July 02, 2009 |
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The Well-Groomed Vagabond
FOUND by Ryann
in North Carolina
The room of the clean-shaven squatter. This documentation of desolation is overwhelming and yet strangely warm. I have had this and a few other very interesting photos of similar for many years. I found them in a box or a book from an antique store.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
I agree with Ryann. Of all the regular commentors, who will be the first to call it creepy?
creeeeeeeeeeepy!
very well composed
@ stampy ... well, yes, except for the body under the blanket to the right there; it's getting de-composed.
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I think this is actually a photo of the new, affordable housing being offered to Orange County girls and their boyfriends in the wake of the recession that started last year.
Looks like a stage, set up for Tobacco Road.
I haven't been trying very hard lately, but all I've been Finding this week is grocery lists and travel-plan-related notes. Maybe I should hie on over to the antique store and collect up some more ancestors and historical still lifes.
Oh, I'm so embarrassed. It's the maid's day off. How did this picture of my house get here! I guess my husband brought it to the antique store in a book or a box.
this is a beautiful picture.
All your squalor are belong to us.
Where's the used needles, rubber tubing, spoon and matches?
This is where my Dad said I would end up if I went to art school.
@Stampy and Librarian - Is that sheet music scattered about on the floor? If so we may have a decomposing composer.
wow, HPD. what's wrong with composing your thoughts first, then putting them all in one comment?
What we can't see, to the right of the frame (but captured in the next shot):
http://foundmagazine.com/find/2697
Looks like so weird, glowing eyes on the left, like an alien is hiding out.
I LOVE THIS PHOTO! (Sorry for shouting.)
I want to see the other photos Ryann found.
When do you think this was taken? And why?
My guess is Civil War era. Maybe it's a place where soldiers on the move camped out, like an abandoned house. But there's some disagreement among my friends. Some say they didn't have photography like that back then. But I think they did. There's a lot of photo documentation of the Civil War, but it's true, this one would be unusual. What do y'all think?
Could be dust bowl era too, 1930s, maybe.
Where's Midlife Crisis when we need him?
wow, Clover. what's wrong with composing your thoughts first, then putting them all in one comment?
I'm just hoping that this isn't the place selected for the 5th and 6th grade overnighter that Sarah doesn't want to ask her dad about. If it is, then he SHOULD be worried.
This photo reminds me of Sweeney Todd.
It looks like a Tom Waits album cover, absolutely gorgeous :)
Tina and Calvin lived in a cabin that had been used for civil war soldiers. A bomb had hit it during the war, but it managed to remain standing. Then the dust bowl had hit it, and still it was standing. Then a bunch of fifth and sixth graders hit it, and Tina and Calvin had to move out.
This reminds me of a Cormac McCarthy novel.
I dunno, my thought is more to what sort of man-or woman, stayed, here how long, etc.,without necessarily thinking of him or her, as something out of Friday the 13th.
beautiful beautiful picture
This almost makes me feel bad for locking Gram'ma in the attic.
Almost.
I have a dream that one day I will live a room similar to this. I will just have a mattress on the floor and the entire room will be white with the exception of some birds painted on the wall. It sounds like heaven.
This photo reminds me of the Diary of Anne Frank. Or wait. No. Flowers in the Attic.
It kind of looks like a large, wooden headboard for a bed leaning up there on the left, but what's the metal-looking thingie attached to it?
Enter HAMM in a wheelchair pushed by CLOV.