More true found photography. It's amazing what you can find on the streets of Los Angeles when you walk everywhere rather than drive everywhere. Both prints are a bit scuffed up, but what do you expect from something on the sidewalk. When I first saw these two prints I was thinking postcard, but when I picked them up and looked at the backs, well, they weren't. Very likely from a digital camera, and ink jet prints. But where they taken by a professional photographer or an amateur?
I tried. I really did. I just couldn't come up with anything clever to go with The Two Guys post from yesterday. The line in the upper right corner is a crease in the photo.
No, they're not selling pizza or whatever the two guys from Italy sell. My best guess is that this picture was taken before World War 1, but after the turn of the century. From the days when men wore suits for almost everything.
Not in the way we use the word now. This photo of Grandma reading the paper is about the size of my thumbnail. It's a bit out of focus, and if blown up, wouldn't be readable.
This is another one of those photos that has been cut down from a larger image. I always wonder why. An ex-boyfriend, how about an ex-husband? Maybe it just needed to fit in a frame. Written on the back, "Mon. Jan 2, 1939." An interesting year. The Great Depression was winding down, and U.S. involvement in World War 2 was only a few years away.
Good Germans between the wars? I have no idea where this photo was taken, but it's printed on Gevaert Ridax paper, manufactured in Belgium from 1905 to 1959.
