Head and Shoulder Portraits - Page One

The Head and Shoulder Portrait.

These are studio portraits that don't fall into the photo-booth category or the Cabinet Card and Cart de Viste category. They have their own pages.

The Photobooth portraits start HERE.
The Cabinet Cards start HERE.
The Cart de Viste pages start HERE.


For this page then, here are the odd format portraits old and recent. Black and white or sepia or color. All of these were done in a studio setting.

0n reverse: Fhr R. Lemp

On reverse: To Stella from Jimmy

On reverse: Jimmy

On reverse: Kenneth age 10, Floyd, New Mexico

On reverse: To Dolly Stanley

On reverse: Dina 56-57

On reverse: Dina 55-56

This might be a photobooth print.

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THE KIDS It is always a mystery how a photograph of any of these precious children could end up lost or abandoned. Here are a few. You will probably say "Ooh..." at least once.

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Sepia Saturday - The House

Dorothy clicked the heels of her ruby slippers and repeated, "There's no place like home. There's no place like home." And surely she was right. Be it ever so humble. Or not.

So lets look at a few homes. Palace or pig-sty, castle or crate, shack or chateau, here are some abandoned photographs of home...well, somewhere, sometime, somebody called these home.

Actually we are revisiting a category we collected long ago called "Our House" But this time, we'll look at photographs of just the house. No occupants. We'll try to imagine who might have lived there.

This one is apparently the same house as in the photograph on the left. Different time, different angle.

This one was rescued from an almost completely lost, photographer's "proof" print. This is light-sensitive photo paper that darkens without the need of chemical baths. It is sandwiched with the negative and exposed to light until it darkens. It produces a temporary contact print for viewing by the customer or just to check the coherence of the photograph in positive mode. It's a quick and easy method for the task. Of course the drawback is that the "proof" paper continues to darken every time it is exposed to light. Therefore, the customer still has to buy a proper print for the family album.

This print also shows the effect of being stored in an envelope. The paper leaked light and further exposed the proof paper. The seamed areas leaked less light.

The house is the same as the one on the right.

This is the same house as on the left. Is is a different winter however, as evidenced by changes in the shrubs.

Have you noticed how many of these were taken with the camera tilted? Not only that; most of those are tilted too far to the left. Some of these have been corrected here by tilting the photo to compensate.

It's time to click your heels and go back home to the SEPIA SATURDAY home page and knock on a few more doors!

There are now more than 4,000 photographs in the Lost Gallery.

The most popular photographs
An album of the most requested photographs in the Lost Gallery.

Area 51 and a Half
You are probably not authorized to see these.

Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you! This is a collection of photographs that disappear on the way home from the photo processing shop.

BACK TO
THE MAIN INDEX PAGE
Or try out the NEW
BACK PAGE INDEX

And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
Penny Tales
Square America
Tattered and Lost Vernacular Photography
The best FOUND PHOTOGRAPH sites on the web.
And for postcards try
THE DAILY POSTCARD.

All images are the property of Lost Gallery and the author. Permission must be granted for their use. All rights reserved.

THE KIDS
It is always a mystery how a photograph of any of these precious children could end up lost or abandoned.
Here are a few.
You will probably say "Ooh..." at least once.

Dee and the Business School
The beautiful Dee. A curious story, What do you see?

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

"What are they doing?"