Amateur Diane Arbus, the Photographic OBJECT vs the Photographic IMAGE At the circus in Black and White

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As I pondered posting these vernacular photographs of a 1958 circus sideshow I found last week, I was struck by their being physical objects...
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Harmonia Baptist Church (Mechanic on Duty)

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Harmonia Baptist Church (recycled garage sign) Unknown Location, American South, c. 1994 Original 35mm photography colllection Jim Linderma...

Tough Girls in Tights ON WHEELS! Roller Derby

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Midge "Toughy" Brasuhn was under 5 feet tall and a firm 135 pounds. Her full name was Margorie Clair Louise Theresa Brasuhn. A m...

Alexander Girard of Herman Miller and Folk Art

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Alexander Girard was of course a genius of modern design, and nothing I write could come close to anything already said...but I can point ou...
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Man is Known by his Work - Mr. Ray's tribute to Ruth

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Mr. Ray built this glass and cement memorial to his dead wife Ruth in Stephenville, Texas. He began in the 1920's. The large building ...

Tintype of a Tintype Studio (with empty chair) The Painted Backdrop

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A photographic posing chair in 1870 was an investment of $50, so this enterprising photographer took a picture of his. Practicing? Maybe. ...

Paul Bunyan Fakelore Urban Legend and Professor Dorson

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Giant Paul Bunyan and his friend Babe the Blue Ox tower over parents and kids who have been in the car too long. Professor Richard Mercer ...
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N.T. Brown Rucker Holy Chapel

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Location unknown, American South original 35mm photograph c. 1993 Collection Jim Linderman
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Measuring Steve Allen for Jack Kerouac (Horrors in Wax #7)

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Wax Windbag Steve Allen waves goodbye to Wax Johnny Carson after having his head measured for waxing. I've always hated Allen for wast...
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Going To Mars 350,000,000 Miles in 5 Minutes by Professor Hunt

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Professor Everett Hunt's homemade and handmade book, at least a few pages from it. The text consists of a newspaper article with Indian...
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Conrad Schuck and his Wonder House

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Conrad Schuck had more than a great name, he had a vision. The Wonder House was 15 years into construction when this postcard was published...
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Eric Stanton Artist of Vintage Sleaze (part four)

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ALL MY ESSAYS ON vintage sleaze illustrators are now collected on VINTAGE SLEAZE The third illustrator who worked for Stanley Malkin and Edd...
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Ramona of the Oranges

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A Spanish/Mexican Hacienda made of Sunkist Oranges with an Asian Sign . What the? Since the publication in 1884, Helen Hunt Jackson...

Cupid's Destiny (Voice of the Lonely Heart #1)

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Dog and Pony Show 1958 Style

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Literally, a Dog and Pony show. The expression once referred to acts held outside a carnival or sideshow. It now means to confuse a someo...

Two Ways Two Dollar Bill "Bought with a Price, Sold under Sin"

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In 1906, William J. Seymour, the son of former slaves, was learning to preach in Houston when he met Neely Terry, an African-American woma...

The Jesse James Gang Plans (Horrors in Wax #6)

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The Wax Jesse James Gang rustles up some robbin' plans under the glow of a bent-up retro modern lamp. "They were a handsome bunch, ...

Rem Wall and his Green Valley Boys

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A real photo post card of Rem Wall and his Green Valley Boys. How my little sister found it for me, I have no idea. When I was a child grow...
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Organizing your photographs with the DYMO Embosser

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DYMO was founded in 1958. Who can forget that satisfying crunch as a letter was squeezed out? That frightening first check for spelling er...