One unexpected side effect of the Web has been the wide array of websites dedicated to vernacular photos. Found photo blogs abound, but some are far more interesting than others – the eye and humor of the collector has a large influence on these sites. One of the best ones that I’ve just recently discovered [...]
About a month ago, Brooks Cameras in San Francisco closed its doors. I was a customer there for several years and already miss the store a lot. The store often had portraits of stars of the 1960s in their window, usually without much of an explanation, other than the obvious implication of “we’ve been here [...]
Brooks Cameras in San Francisco is closing their doors after more than sixty years in business and this week was their “Everything Must Go” sale. The staff there found a lot of old boxes in their storage area that probably hadn’t been touched in decades and among many other things there were a couple of [...]
March 15, 1945 France Our first meeting in over three years.