Vintage Everyday
These photos of shadows — white shadows in the streets of Paris, white marks on the dark skin of strange foreigners photographed in Paris, Lisbon, Gondar or Zanzibar. In the 1850s, these shadows suddenly gained power in various images when the presence of unexplained white silhouettes was noticed: many stories tell of translucent apparitions of the dead among the living, from which William Mumler soon figured out he could make money.
3. This image in title Melancholy. The use of photography to create this image is quite interesting. I think this image is interesting because the man is trapped by himself in this image. In relation to the text I think it could represent the anxiety of disconnection. People were able to send messages, send their words, far away, disconnecting them from the message.
Vintage Everyday
These photos of shadows — white shadows in the streets of Paris, white marks on the dark skin of strange foreigners photographed in Paris, Lisbon, Gondar or Zanzibar. In the 1850s, these shadows suddenly gained power in various images when the presence of unexplained white silhouettes was noticed: many stories tell of translucent apparitions of the dead among the living, from which William Mumler soon figured out he could make money.
