A Vacation in Hamburg 12

 

Well, I haven't been posting anything for a while, and my only excuse is sheer laziness.  I just haven't felt like it.  So, now that I'm back, I thought it was time to put up the final five photographs from the Hamburg Vacation Collection.  (Go to labels and click on that to see the lot.  There's no rhyme or reason to the order, so start anywhere.)  To recap, if I were to give an honest name to this blog, it would be The Newly Purchased Photography.  Almost all of the photos I put up have been bought in antique stores, thrift stores, or online.  Once in a while, however, I actually do find old photos, and this collection is an example of that.  I was walking along the street, and there it was.  Color snapshots taken in Hamburg, Germany blowing around, and envelopes of old negatives.  I thought about digging out the light box and matching up the prints to the negs, but I was worried that, on my limited income, I'd end up spending money on having prints made from any negatives that I couldn't match to a photo, so I didn't.      

A Vacation In Hamburg 11

 

The penultimate post in this series.  I'm not going to write a lot about this selection of true found photographs.  All I'm going to do is recommend that those who are curious, to click on Hamburg Vacation Collection in labels, to see the first 10 posts, and to read about how I actually found these photos on the street.  I don't know when I'll get around to the final chapter of this series, so be patient. 

A Vacation in Hamburg 10

 

I sometimes wonder about my fascination with other people's photographs.  I kind of get the really old stuff, but these street snaps from Hamburg, Germany are from 1989.  Hardly antique scenes.  Anyway, more true found photography.  From a street in Los Angeles.  Click on Hamburg Vacation Collection in labels to see the rest of the photos from this lot and get some more info on them.  The photographer seems to be interested in the Beer Dorf, or Beer Village, in English.  Right next to a Chinese restaurant. 

A Vacation In Hamburg 7

 

More German street scenes, and another of those weird German living room shots.  The living room photo has a date written on the back, "9 July 1989."  Click on Hamburg Vacation Collection in labels to see more. 

A Vacation in Hamburg 6

 

Once again, tourists in Hamburg, Germany.  These are true-found photographs.  I was walking down the street and there they were, blowing down the sidewalk.  Very few of these photos have anything written on the back, but a couple are dated 1989, so I'm assuming that they were all taken around the same time.  Some of the buildings in these photos are painted with a medieval feel, and this is just a guess, but Hamburg was heavily bombed during World War 2, so an attempt to give Hamburg a feel that it had before the war. Click on Hamburg Vacation Collection in labels to see the rest.