Thursday, May 29, 2008

Photos, and more photos

He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died

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)  : ....
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. 

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

In the movie "Smoke" (Harvey Keitel, Forrest Whitaker, and, if I remember, William Hurt), the Keitel character takes a Polaroid picture from the same vantage point (outside his smoke shop) at the exact same time, every day for several years.

Chet

MoFiZiX Gr4FiX said...

On 03-15-80 he visited Lucy the elephant in Margate NJ, Just a couple minutes south of Atlantic City. How creepy that he shot the Twin Towers on April fools day just a couple weeks later.

Anonymous said...

Incredible!
Ozaob

Anonymous said...

He wanted them all to know, til the very end, who he was.......You can be known by poses struck in photos, but better known by the pictures you take.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Very good JMac

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