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Yesterday
I came across a slightly mysterious website — a collection of
Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997.
There’s no author listed, no contact info, and no other indication as
to where these came from. So, naturally, I started looking through the
photos. I was stunned by what I found.
In 1979 the photos start casually, with pictures of friends, picnics,
dinners, and so on. Here’s an example from April 23, 1979 (I believe
the photographer of the series is the man in the left foreground in
this picture) : ....
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Chris Higgins at Mental Floss
cherry picked from what must be, what, 10,000 pictures? -- which he
presents in poignant sequence. The original website is here, at http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/. From that I presumed that the unknown photographer was named Hugh Crawford. That led me to this site, Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn, run by another guy with that name. His shtick, No Words Daily Pix, leads
me to speculate that this might be Hugh Junior. At any rate, if you
like looking at photographs, these will hold you for a few weeks.
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