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Yan Basque's photostream
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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 of no interest 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/
Facebook
www.facebook.com/yan.basque
Twitter
twitter.com/#!/yanbasque
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Contacts (182)
Groups (37)
- Flickr Ideas 0 photos, 10,394 members
- Text 6,245 photos, 613 members
- Experimental Typography 16,722 photos, 2,844 members
- photographic narcolepsy 228 photos, 25 members
- Vintage Photo Booth 773 photos, 207 members
- RAYO DESINTEGRADOR 376 photos, 64 members
- ● 12,411 photos, 1,548 members
- Birthday Cakes of the Past [VINTAGE ONLY] 332 photos, 392 members
- Aesthetics of Failure 8,956 photos, 6,623 members
- Glitch Art 8,162 photos, 3,888 members
- Rephotography. 721 photos, 278 members
- School Portraits 290 photos, 249 members
- Métro de Montréal 1,947 photos, 345 members
- pictures of the television 5,252 photos, 618 members
- PhotoBooth 5,100 photos, 1,588 members
- Moleskinerie 94,743 photos, 16,753 members
- Moleskine Alchemists 18,943 photos, 1,348 members
- Moleskine: One Page at a Time. 43,494 photos, 4,359 members
- Scanner darkly 677 photos, 194 members
- scanned objects - images using a scanner 4,787 photos, 1,535 members
- Gear Porn 6,010 photos, 895 members
- Black Cat 12,632 photos, 1,234 members
- Montreal ! Group 30,646 photos, 1,429 members
- Montreal 83,026 photos, 3,867 members
- Flyers 3,378 photos, 639 members
- Posters U Make 17,830 photos, 2,652 members
- Gig Posters 4,551 photos, 847 members
- Concert Posters 5,797 photos, 1,144 members
- Zine Swap 337 photos, 224 members
- 80's Child upload your original old family pics,real 80's retro 99 photos, 46 members
- Retro Kid 5,541 photos, 3,583 members
- Vintage Illustration 42,519 photos, 4,956 members
- Found Images: Everything but Snapshots 4,442 photos, 217 members
- Vintage Childrens Books 29,869 photos, 4,608 members
- Scanned Nostalgia 29,618 photos, 1,194 members
- Found Photographs 37,844 photos, 2,893 members
- Vintage Kids 25,765 photos, 2,891 members
Galleries (5)
- We used to be superheroes 18 photos
- My first bike III 17 photos
- My first bike II 14 photos
- My first bike 18 photos
- Cat scans! 7 photos
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- Name:
- Yan Basque
- Joined:
- January 2006
- Hometown:
- Grande-Anse, NB
- Currently:
- Montreal, Canada
- I am:
- Male
- Occupation:
- Editor











