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50 Unexplainable Black & White Images

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50 Unexplainable Black & White Images - 12-07-2011, 08:39 AM


I got this link from the same site as the 45 Most Powerful images thread. These photos are too funny/weird not to share. I still can't get over the kids smoking

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12-07-2011, 08:55 AM


A few things scare me: how many skeletons were popular, and how long furries have been around...

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12-07-2011, 11:50 AM


22 - is very disturbing...I've seen this before...always makes me laugh...!!!

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12-07-2011, 03:27 PM


Yeah, the repeating themes of the skeletons and masks are interesting. Was it common for photo studios to have a skeleton in the closet back then?

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12-07-2011, 03:29 PM


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Yeah, the repeating themes of the skeletons and masks are interesting. Was it common for photo studios to have a skeleton in the closet back then?
Well, the expression had to start somewhere. Now we know where!

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12-07-2011, 03:37 PM


I see a lot of 'portraits' and wonder: Just how did this conversation start?

Take just one of the photos on the list - #47: I'd just love to have been there to hear the photographer convincing the young lady "It's perfectly normal - ALL my clients get to use this set."

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12-07-2011, 03:47 PM


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I see a lot of 'portraits' and wonder: Just how did this conversation start?

Take just one of the photos on the list - #47: I'd just love to have been there to hear the photographer convincing the young lady "It's perfectly normal - ALL my clients get to use this set."
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12-07-2011, 04:16 PM


a few of these really look like pre-photoshop cut n paste. I used to watch my dad do this in the 60s and 70s: x-acto knives, frisket paper, airbrushes and rubber cement...by the time he was thru virtually no one could tell. And the final output (and often several intermediates) was in fact a photograph (print), usually created on a Photostat machine. (for example: the "giant" holding the "little person" in his hand would be quite easy to do.)

The really scary part is that some of what we do today will be looked upon as just as strange some day in the perhaps not-to-distant future. What goes around comes around....

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12-07-2011, 04:19 PM


Just goes to show that people have always liked taking goofy pictures

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The really scary part is that some of what we do today will be looked upon as just as strange some day in the perhaps not-to-distant future. What goes around comes around....
Two words: Selective Color

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12-07-2011, 04:33 PM


It is me in #23.

We had been drinking - and - well never mind....
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Two words: Selective Color
in that case we may already be there.....

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12-07-2011, 05:02 PM


those wacky Pictorialists...

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12-07-2011, 05:23 PM


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Yeah, the repeating themes of the skeletons and masks are interesting. Was it common for photo studios to have a skeleton in the closet back then?
Don't we all have a few in our closets? hmmmm?
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12-07-2011, 10:26 PM


No skeletons in my closet, but maybe a corpse or 2
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