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Photo Curious

Ben Rains

Forgotten corners of all things photographic

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Tintype Twins

A tintype from my personal photography collection. I think the girls are probably sisters and that this maybe dates from the 1870s.

a year ago
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Overdoing It

People often mistakenly believe image manipulation was invented in the digital era, and that applications like Photoshop bear the brunt of the blame for excessive retouching and contributing to the creation of impossible beauty standards in...

a year ago
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Emilie V. Clarkson

The more time I spend reading old photographic literature, the more things I unearth that seem to have been forgotten from modern recollections of photography's history. One of the most obvious omissions I've noticed is the great number of...

a year ago
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Girls in the Grass

Two girls in the grass, ca. 1920s. A photograph from my collection.

This one caught my eye because of its great composition and impressionistic feel. The surface of the photograph has faded fingerprint patterns all across it from past hand...

2 years ago
1

US and Canada Relations

A hand colored real photo postcard from the early 1900s from my personal photography collection. This one is postmarked June 1907 from Worcester, Massachusetts in the US to Montreal, Canada.

2 years ago

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