Only Words

Taken unknown
Rescued 2007-2010

Every day thousands of family snapshots are lost or discarded. Some are never seen again. Some are salvaged.

In On Longing, Susan Stewart writes: "Without marking, all ancestors become abstractions, losing their proper names; all family trips become the same trip – the formal garden, the waterfall, the picnic site, and the undifferentiated sea become attributes of every country".

The snapshots here have been scanned true to their original format. Each entices the viewer to construct in their mind a version of the image verso.

  • Ain't this grand
  • I am a year old now!
  • He will take a shot at them
  • Mein lieber Bernhard!
  • Left to right standing
  • Perkin's Beach
  • Pretty Damsels
  • The framework is quite shakey
  • Ann was sick when it was made
  • 202m
  • Frank does all the hard work
  • When Jim taught mama to fly
  • Like my haircut?
  • Here is a picture
  • Love, Norris Hodge
  • View we get every morning noon & nite
  • 15 cents
  • Bear in Yellowstone Park
  • Lee's sword is 50' long
  • x Jaci (5)
  • Just a tub of cherries
  • With loving thoughts & envy
  • The lawn looks much better now
  • The hall leads to the entry

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