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My grandmother Ada Rogers, and my Uncle Jimmy (James) probably around 1932-35. Possibly Fort Worth or San Antonio, TX. James Rogers was born in 1922, and here he must be at least 10 years old. The Rogers family moved to San Antonio from Fort Worth sometime after Uncle Chauncey graduated from high school in 1931, and by 1934. But remember this was the depression, so jobs were few and far between.
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And even earlier...
Hidden Camera captured 19th century candids on the street.
Carl Størmer (1874-1957) was a young student of mathematics when he purchased his first hidden camera. It was so small that the lens fit through the buttonhole in his vest with a cord that led down to his pocket, allowing him to secretly snap away. In his biography for the Fellows of the Royal Society, he revealed it was actually a secret crush that led him toward photography. “When he was a young man at Oslo University he fell in love with a lady whom he did not know and with whom he was too bashful to become acquainted,” writes his biographer. “Wishing at least to have a picture of her, he decided that this was possible only by taking a photograph of her himself, without her knowing.”
To go with the meme for Sepia Saturday.
The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. |
BELL HOOKS  And what is that called? Photo-bombing! |
The button-hole camera pix were quite something, but the photo-bombing pic' was a hoot! :))
ReplyDeleteI agree completely!
DeleteYour grandmother looks like she does not approve of strangers taking her picture. The secret button-hole camera was new to me. The circular photos look like they were taken on glass plate and not film. Perhaps this was how the trade of sidewalk photographer got its start.
ReplyDeleteI think it was probably another of her sons with the camera, so she made the motherly disapproval look at him! He went ahead and took it though! I don't know how you tell glass plate photos from film...will look into it when I get a chance.
DeleteYour grandmother looks all business as she escorts your Uncle Jimmy. I love how dressed up they are. Also enjoyed the buttonhole camera photos. Carl Størmer would have loved today's smartphone cameras :-)
ReplyDeleteYes, Mr. Stormer would certainly have loved the smartphone cameras, I'm sure!
DeleteLove that first photo! And I've never heard of the button-hole camera before either.
ReplyDeleteI had vaguely heard of them, but never saw the products of one.
DeleteFrom Scotsue - what a great selection of photographs with so much to admire - the upright determined walk of your grandmother, the fashions revealed by the pinhole camera - and I had to laugh aloud at the goofy horse picture.
ReplyDeleteThat woman sure meant business! And Jimmy probably was ready for his trousers to be let out another inch, as he grew to be the tallest of the Rogers sons.
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