Preface by Natacha Wolinski
Created by Lee Shulman, The Anonymous Project brings together and preserves color slides from the late 1930s to the mid-1980s, taken by amateur photographers from all over the world. An extraordinary energy emanates from these intimate archives, captured within the sphere of family, home, and domestic life, documenting birthdays, Christmases, meals, boozy evenings with friends, picnics, or naps in the garden. The intense colors and sharpness of Kodachrome capture timeless, familiar moments, forming the kaleidoscopic diary of an era.
Families immortalize the highlights that punctuate their lives, as well as the changes brought about by postwar consumer society (the arrival of the television set, for example, or a gleaming new car).
Sequenced thematically, these moving anonymous archives celebrate the “stuff of life” and trace the outlines of a collective memory—ordinary, yet precious.
Published by Edition Textuel
English
Print on Gold Leaf
23 × 2 × 29.3 cm
192 pages
2019
Preface by Natacha Wolinski
Created by Lee Shulman, The Anonymous Project brings together and preserves color slides from the late 1930s to the mid-1980s, taken by amateur photographers from all over the world. An extraordinary energy emanates from these intimate archives, captured within the sphere of family, home, and domestic life, documenting birthdays, Christmases, meals, boozy evenings with friends, picnics, or naps in the garden. The intense colors and sharpness of Kodachrome capture timeless, familiar moments, forming the kaleidoscopic diary of an era.
Families immortalize the highlights that punctuate their lives, as well as the changes brought about by postwar consumer society (the arrival of the television set, for example, or a gleaming new car).
Sequenced thematically, these moving anonymous archives celebrate the “stuff of life” and trace the outlines of a collective memory—ordinary, yet precious.
Published by Edition Textuel
English
Print on Gold Leaf
23 × 2 × 29.3 cm
192 pages
2019
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