Close to Home: An American AlbumA Siamese cat beneath a clotheslinethree women with linked arms standing on the front lawna man drying his hands on a dish towel in front of the kitchen stove. These scenes are part of Close to Home and the accompanying the Getty Museum exhibition held from October 12, 2004 to January 16, 2005, which celebrate snapshots--"found" photographs by anonymous photographers--that capture everyday life in all of its joy, banality, and mystery. Taken between 1930 and the mid-1960s, these photographs, most of them in black-and-white, create an unpretentious portrait of suburban American life by untrained photographers whose images can be unexpectedly lyrical and moving. |
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actor Mitch Longley aesthetic African Americans amateur American Album amnesia anonymous artifacts artists asphalt back east black-and-white photographs Bruce Berman camera clichés Close to Home collective social collectors color transparencies Curator of Photographs D. J. Waldie dead children dealer drugstore print dye transfer exhibition it accompanies experience face fact familial photo family album father forgetfulness found in outdoor Found photographs Found snapshots fragment Gail Pine gallery wall gazing Guy Stricherz hands hold Irene Malli Jacqueline Woods Kodachrome Kodak culture lives look lost snapshots makers markets and secondhand memory Michael Blasgen museum curator never Norman Kulkin number of photographs outdoor markets past Paul Getty Museum Photography had promised picture taker Pine and Jacqueline pose rectangle says secondhand shops shoeboxes shots smiling Snapshot shooters snapshot wants someone storage unit story swap meet things wants to remember Weston Naef WILSON ANGELES Wislawa Szymborska woman women writer Babbette Hines