Before digital cameras, Photoshop, and Flickr, it appears that people actually printed pictures on paper. According to this lovely book, it also seems that there was a time when people put a lot of love and creative energy into embellishing these printed photos with all sorts of curious accoutrements. Who knew? Here's the real blurb from the publisher: Forget Me Not explores the curious and centuries-old practice of strengthening the emotional appeal of photographs by embellishing them—with text, paint, frames, embroidery, fabric, string, hair, flowers, bullets, cigar wrappers, butterfly wings, and more—to create strange and often beautiful hybrid objects. Available now in paperback, this spellbinding book features color photographs of eighty such objects, extraordinary works of art, part memento, part obsessive assemblage, created by ordinary people from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. This paperback book measures 7.75" x 9.25, contains 128 pages and 80 color images. |
