FAUX LEATHER BOX WITH PHOTOGRAPHS

1980s EA/HU/0038

How many stories begin with a suitcase full of photographs being found in some house after having been forgotten for some time? Too many. Yet, the appeal of vernacular photography is precisely that it allows to peer very closely into life moments that were meant as private. And so the cliché meets so much interest because of the reassuring, nosy lure of something intimate turning public.

FAUX LEATHER BOX WITH PHOTOGRAPHS

1980s EA/HU/0038

How many stories begin with a suitcase full of photographs being found in some house after having been forgotten for some time? Too many. Yet, the appeal of vernacular photography is precisely that it allows to peer very closely into life moments that were meant as private. And so the cliché meets so much interest because of the reassuring, nosy lure of something intimate turning public.