Project Spotlight: Dear Photograph
A blog with an interesting concept, using vintage photographs and superimposing them on the physical sites they were once taken. A photo within a photo…. but there is more to this than just an fun twist on creating an image. The site takes its name from creating a direct address to the original photograph- Dear Photograph, a message written to the actual vintage photograph, of the memory it creates and even more so, the nostalgia for a world with film and tactile memories. Quite poetic:
“But I find Mr. Jones’s original conceit even more interesting: The messages on the site weren’t meant to be written to the people in the photos, but to the photographs themselves. These are messages to the message in the bottle, a thank-you note to a form of record-keeping that has changed beyond recognition. Sentiment for the past; sentiment for the ways we used to capture it: It’s a killer cocktail.” (Globe and Mail)
http://dearphotograph.com/
