Lost and Found Photos

Lost and Found Honeymoon Photographs

HERE is a story from CBS 8 in San Diego.  "A San Diego couple shot hundreds of pictures on their honeymoon, then lost their camera. But one year later, they were reunited with their precious pictures."

 

Digital Found Photos

Frits Gierstberg ask this in Christian Skrein Snapshots:

 "It is rather unlikely that we will find digital photo files on the flee market in fifty or a hundred years from now.  Or will we then find them on the World Wide Web?" (p. 11)

Answer: Both.  Old, abandoned computers with hard drives full of photos.  And the WWW where the some were placed by the owners. 

A Call for Rock 'n' Roll Photographs

Read the article HERE.  See quote from article below. . .

 

"And they've put out the call for any photos taken by kids with Brownie cameras who stashed them away somewhere and then forgot them.

Only one show remains with no photos found -- the Capitol Theater in Davenport. At the elegant Prom Ballroom in St. Paul, a 12-year-old boy took photos backstage of Holly and others, but none have surfaced of the concert itself. Garabedian and McCool are offering "a significant cash reward" for pictures from St. Paul and Davenport."

Lawyer finds owner of lost camera

Here is a story from a few days ago . . . Read about a lawyer "tracking" down an owner of a lost camera HERE.

David: Where will your photos go when you die?

This is part two of the faux documentary I created and presented at IVSA 2004.  Is David's response (and argument) authentic even though it is made-up?  I'm planning to interview David again about his response.  If you click on the DOCUMENTARY tab above, you will find a real short documentary I created when I returned a photo album (my Aunt purchased it at an auction) the owners in Tennesee.

 

I was thinking about this during the discussion of the authenticity of the Prospect Park film canister story.

Untitled from Todd Wemmer on Vimeo.

Memory card found after Tsumnami

While there is speculation about the Prospect Park Film Canister authenticity, you should go read this story from the Day after Christmas Tsumnami.  Man finds memory card in water soaked camera belonging to a couple on vacation who died in Tsumnami.  Here is the story:  Couple's final photos "an echo from the grave"

A small collection of human interest stories about lost-and-found photos

HERE is a very small collection of stories about lost-and-found photographs.  These stories are published everyday. Or that's what Google Alerts and LexisNexis tell me.

Flood Photo Rescue in Australia

Read the story HERE.

"BILOELA woman Jackie Kington has used her own pain as inspiration to try and help Theodore flood victims who have lost precious family photos.

Jackie feared a power surge which damaged her computer had lost her photos of her son Andrew and husband Wayne, who have died in recent years, but someone had copied them onto another hard drive."

One more thing: "Jackie has since bought an external hard drive to keep the photos safe."  This does not keep photos safe (in my humble opinion).  Hard drives fail.  At the very least, but two external drives to back up photos and keep the drives in two different locations.  A hard drive crash is like a house fire.

 

 

ABC News Picks up the Lost Prospect Park Film / Photos

ABC News picked up the story . . . Read it HERE.

Found photos in New York City blizzard

Lost and Found Photos Spark YouTube Search in the Village Voice by Myles Tanzer. An article about a man who found a roll of film in Prospect Park.  See Youtube video below by Todd Bieber (the man who found the photos).  Make sure you read the comments below the video questioning its authenticity.  If you visit the Documentary tab above you will see three different videos.  One is a recording of someone answering the question "Where do you think your photos will go when you die?"  The other two videos are very similar in format.  Photo slide show and someone talks about the photos.  One of these videos is titled The Photo Album. That is the a "true" story of a photo album my aunt purchased at an auction. I found the owners by doing a simple Google search.  The other one is titled: Where will your photos go when you die?  A faux documentary.  That contains recordings by people making up their feelings about lost-and-found photographs.  In the second part, a man (David) does not care to have his family photos back. . .he makes a compelling argument why he doesn't want the photos or even need the photos back.  Is this an authentic response? He is making up the response. . . but he makes an important point: Some people don't want their family photos back.  That's why they abandon them in the first place.   More on this later.  If Bieber's Youtube video got 88,000 hits, how many hits did this story get? It was on the New York Times website. . .