09 March 2005

Found Photography to make you go oooh...

I just found this over on the seemingly excellent (am I a fencesitter or what?) Drawn! picture-blog. It's a gallery of found photography printed by Bruce Jackson. The set is entitled 'Mirrors. Photographs from the Arkansas State Prison 1915-1937.' and I gotta say they're awesome. I love photographs that are heavy on texture (I did a little amateur messing around with texture in photography when I did my AS, messing up my negatives and using really fast film so the pits are blatantly visable. They might be somewhere on this site, I'm not sure) and these ones have the added bonus of being chock-full of hauntingly beautiful pathos. Aparently, this page was linked off of BoingBoing a while ago, but I guess I missed it.