Yan Basque's photostream

I'm not a very good photographer.
But that's never stopped me from trying.

I'm obsessed with vintage photography, especially images that evoke childhood or family life in the sixties and seventies. I spend a lot of time creeping on other people's scanned family albums. They're fascinating to me.

At the same time, I hate the current popularity of vintage looks. Digital photos manipulated to look old are boring to me.

I don't fetishize film or nostalgia or authenticity. But what appeals to me about a faded print from 1968 is not just a superficial look that can be replicated by Photoshop filters or some iPhone app. These photos are windows into a world that literally doesn't exist anymore. And the passage of time - the wear and tear of the physical photographs, as well as the transformation of technology - is embedded in the image itself. There's something very profound about that.

Other places where you will find me:

Irrelevant Comics
irrelevantcomics.blogspot.com/

Against Language
againstlanguage.blogspot.com/

I Understand and I Wish to Continue
yanbasque.blogspot.com/

The Great Vowel Shift
greatvowelshift.bandcamp.com/

Melt into Whiteness
meltintowhiteness.tumblr.com/

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