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Wolf Zorrito
{K:78768} 11/5/2010
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Thanks Turi and all credits to the photographers of 1925 that made this shot :)
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Wolf Zorrito
{K:78768} 11/5/2010
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Thanks Birashis,
Yes, they did not care about megapixels
just about light
and the basic concepts of perception
Dhonneyobad
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Turi cg
{K:27715} 11/4/2010
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Excellent work Harry!
hugs
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Gustavo Scheverin
{K:164501} 11/4/2010
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Interesantísimos personajes rescatados del olvido, me gustan!
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Birashis Sarkar
{K:2423} 11/4/2010
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another impressive shot, dear Harry! look at the use of light & shadow even during those days!
Best Regards,
Birashis
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Srna Stankovic
{K:172232} 11/4/2010
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Very very very gooooooooood Harry ... I like you share all these photos with us, thanks :-)
Hope you are well and fine.
Srna
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Nanda Baba das
{K:78053} 11/4/2010
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Very good old photo my dear friend. How are you today?
My best,
Nandaji
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Panyakit Chaovamu
{K:4051} 11/4/2010
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I like his tie, Harry
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Ania Zielińska-Hoşaf
{K:61374} 11/4/2010
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Mr Rienk is a neighbor of a noble Ukrainian cat now, take a look ;)
He looks very proud of this photo, great old shot
Cheers,
Ania
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Wolf Zorrito
{K:78768} 11/4/2010
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I was puzzled why these very old images were archived in almost mint condition in a brandnew photo-album. The only traces of wear and tear were caused by the people exchanging the photos back in ~1925. I saw droplets of what probably is nailpolish.
Mum has inherited the photos from her parents. My 2 cents they have been kept in a "shoebox" since 1927. Mum has completed the album. She made notes at the back of each image as if she knew I would find them and publish them. Thanks Mum !
I know the places where the people on the images lived and the where-abouts of the photo studio. I have been crossing their footprints many times during my study in Groningen city.
And I also wondered why they would make a 4 hour journey on a bike in a heatwave or in cold weather or autumn gails to have the photos made, for fun ?
That is if you had a bike. Probably not.
I remember mum told me grandpa ( Abel Smilda ) did make the journey by foot, walking. That would be a 6 hour journey roundtrip ( ~30 km total ). And now I wonder, probably they had one image taken and would order abt 50 to 100 prints. Did the photography shop manage to hand over that the same day to the customers that day or did my grandpa had to make the journey twice..... ? Wow.
And if you were not that young or athletic, a stopover at a friends place would be needed, with luck a ride on a horse and wagon of a farmer.
Plenty of wear and tear and adventures and uncertainty, thus another reason to look down, fatigue, absent minded thinking of the troubles you will find to get back home again. Another reason not to smile.
No, not for fun as we do nowadays, for work and survival ! To find a job and income and food. Guess the story is universal to other places on the world in all times ( children labor 14 hrs a day ).
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I realise now it is an unique collection of "business cards" used by the people in the first 3 decades of the 20th century ( ~1910-1925 ). A kind of "LinkedIn" or "Facebook" of old times.
With the start of industrialization and mechanization, the ladies found work in factories, the men in industy and other professions since the work on the fields was mechanised. And thus the era of these "business card" images disappeared. In fact it cannot be reproduced in our times, just simulated.
Harry
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