Found photos

1960s

Enjoy this wacky dump of classic vintage snaps of awkward family photos of friends and relatives getting their holiday festivities rollin'. A little ham, a

William J. Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennesse, but grew up in the small Mississippi town of Sumner. He became known as "the father of color photography" for his striking photos of people, events and landscapes in the South. Although he had been been a professional photographer for several years in the South, it wasn't until a visit to New York City in 1967 that Eggleston became known outside that area, when the curator of the Museum of Modern Art saw a collection of Eggleston's slides…

Kitchens in the 1970s were often characterized by bold colors, like avocado green and harvest gold, along with lots of wood paneling and lam...

My Chicago friend, Jeff Phillips, happened upon a set of 1,000 slides in a secondhand store–a discovery that set him not only on a journey into someone else’s life, but connected him with strangers and got him thinking about the importance of physical photographs and what they mean as a legacy to others. His discovery has

We love Kodachromes and we love found photos . Lee Shulman shares those loves, recognising what he calls “the emotional value of these slices of life”. Since 20