Amateur Photo Albums | CONFIRMED |

: Today, many contemporary artists and collectors treat these "found" albums as art pieces, rediscovering the "unwitting photographers" who created them. Notable Examples of the Genre The Americans by Robert Frank

This was the golden era of the amateur photo album. The Kodak Brownie and Instamatic cameras put photography into everyone’s hands. Families would shoot a 24-exposure roll of film, wait a week for development, and then spend an evening arranging the 4x6 glossies into magnetic or "mounting corner" albums. The captions were handwritten in blue ballpoint pen: "Uncle Jim’s birthday," "First day of school," "The year the tomatoes grew wild." amateur photo albums

When you aren't worried about lighting or "the grid," you take more photos of the small things—a messy kitchen after a great dinner, or a backyard view that looks different every season. : Today, many contemporary artists and collectors treat

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