Untitled #7

July 10, 2006

FOUND by Joe Beshenkovsky

Found near road in the bottom of the ditch in the spring, must have been under the snow all winter.

Land of Rising Hope

March 20, 2006

FOUND by Andrew Neher in Minneapolis, Minnesota

This was found in Minneapolis. On the back of this article was an advertisement for America’s Independent Electric Light and Power companies. The headline for the ad reads: “Would You Call This Fair Play?”

My Puppy Chewed Up Your DVD Case

January 29, 2006

FOUND by Corey Pierce

I work at a video store. We got this attached to a returned copy of the “Last Samurai.”

Timeless

November 30, 2005

FOUND by Jim Davis in Slidell, Louisiana

I discovered this picture on the outside window ledge of a restaurant that used to be a railroad depot in Louisiana. I don’t know what the guy is rolling up – it’s kind of like he stops mid-toke with that regular cigarette when he sees what the other guy is working on. If you blow it up, you’ll see coins in the tall guy’s outstretched hand, and that they seem to be standing in front of a cage. A cock fight, maybe? The dressed up dude who’s rolling seems too dressed up for a cock fight, though, unless maybe it’s because he’s been booked as the opening act. The picture at first seems real early sixties, until you see the white guy in the background, sort of like it has traveled through time and picked up a recent passenger before I met it at the railroad station to bring it home. The white parts are where the photo surface has cracked and flaked off, and the other marks on the surface look as if the coating has melted in the heat. It could be a few months old, or a few years, but regardless, timeless.

Damaged Heart

November 8, 2005

FOUND by Paul R. in Tacoma, Washington

Found in a box full of fire damaged goods donated to Goodwill. In 1992, there was a fire at my apartment. Everything was damaged, and I gave it all to Goodwill to see if they could salvage anything. Years later, in 1999, after going through four peoples’ hands, a friend of mine showed me this pic and said it looked a lot like me and well, it IS me (!) and Nancy Wilson in Vancouver back in 1979. I just about cried when I saw it. A lost memory returns! It’s the only remaining picture I have of my two years as a roadie for Heart!

Girl Lazer

November 6, 2005

FOUND by Miranda Gorski in Oakdale, Minnesota

My mom is a wedding photographer and I often help out. I found this along the Beaver Lake walking trail when we did some of the couple’s alone pictures.

Metro Wheel

July 16, 2005

FOUND by Jenny & Herb Rieth in Cincinnati, Ohio

Found on our walk to work.

Greece Gone Wrong

July 13, 2005

FOUND by Nikolaus Maack in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

On the winter sidewalk sat half a photograph- I looked around but I couldn’t find the other half anywhere. On the back I can make out the partial word “Acova (19)” and beneath that “Greece.” What sort of emotions made the owner of it tear it in half? And what was in the other half of the picture?

July 1960

July 7, 2005

FOUND by Gary Roscoe Johnson in Detroit, Michigan

Found in an abandoned/burned out apartment building, circa 1982 (now demolished).

No Love Lost

June 20, 2004

FOUND by Heather in New York, New York

I found this in 2000. One can sense a lot of anger here; obviously this romance didn’t work out and (I speculate) the parting was not amicable. Like a lot of people I have shown this last photo to, I wonder if sometime, somewhere I have pissed off someone enough to do just such a thing to some photo of me. Given that I had a jilted would-be paramour who broke into my locker before finals and ripped up my entire portfolio of drawings, I think I know the answer. Regardless, to this day, I have a problem with having my picture taken.