Saturday, August 21, 2010

What Dealers Do, A Boy and His Bra


Another example of how antique dealers destroy collections. According to the seller, this is a self portrait, from the 1940's, of a young man named Eddie Harbaugh. It seems that Eddie was a photography mad young man who had no one to pose for him, so he made up an album of self portraits. This is a tiny print, only 1 1/2 x 1 7/8s inches in size. I never saw the whole album, but at that size, there may have been hundreds of separate images, and if Eddie was willing to take a picture of himself in a bra, who knows what a treasure that album was. Sadly, we'll never know, since the dealer tore it apart, and sold the photos separately.

1 comment:

  1. Criminal! Stupid! Careless! Oh to have seen this album all together. The story it would have told. Really historically criminal.

    Great shot.

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