Photographs of African Americans, gay interest, disaster photography, vintage Las Vegas, New York, or San Francisco all seem to sell at a premium. Many of these are now part of serious museum and gallery collections.Ĭertain types of snapshots are more valuable than others and highly collectible. The most popular type of photograph collected is probably the standard black and white snapshot - paper photographs, many casually made, oftentimes by Americans, mostly in the 1920s-1960s. There are many different types of collectors of found photos. To simplify things I’m defining found photos as physical photos, negatives and slides that have been separated from their original owners. The timing seemed right to dive in.Īfter almost three years now of collecting vernacular photography ( and publishing over 10,000 found photos on Flickr), I’ve decided to write this blog post to share my approach to my own collection. Mostly his photos focused on the American Southwest and included many photos of American Indians from the 1940s and 1950s - the collection also included many personal photos of his family and family life.Ī few months later the pandemic hit and I found myself reluctant to go out and make my own photos while also simultaneously fascinated by a new found hobby of collecting vernacular photographs (found photos). ![]() Googling Bell, I learned that he’d been published in National Geographic. The best I could figure out, the slides were made by a photographer named Hugh Stevens Bell. I bought the box (I think for $20) and began digging into the slides (mostly old Kodachromes). In November of 2019, visiting my parents down in Los Angeles over Thanksgiving, and shortly before the pandemic started, I stumbled upon a box of 35mm slides in a warehouse in an antique store. Since I’ve been using Flickr, in fact, 963 of my photos have been featured in Explore.Īn undated photo of Monument Valley (likely late 1940s) taken by photographer Hugh Stevens Bell. I do regularly have photos featured in this popular area of Flickr. This caused this photo’s view count to rocket higher on Flickr.Īs of this morning the view count comparison now stands at: Update: a day after I wrote this blog post, the photo in this blog post hit Flickr’s popular Explore page where Flickr each day prominently features 500 photographs from the site. I’m assuming that both platforms apply the term as liberally as possible and it’s meant to mean any time your photo was seen anywhere on either site on a computer, tablet, or phone screen. I should also add that I don’t know exactly what constitutes a “view” on either platform. I also put the photo into the pool in American photographer and added it to other groups as invited on Flickr (I would normally do this anyways). Other than posting a link in my Flickr group American Photographer, I didn’t post anywhere else on either link. I didn’t do anything special to promote either of the two photos myself other than engage in the comments on each as I normally would. I’m not sure exactly what any of this means other than while my photo got 2x the number of views on Twitter, it also got 2x the amount of engagement on Flickr (as measured by likes and comments). The Twitter photo also got six retweets (Flickr doesn’t have retweets). There are other metrics to look at as well. Oddly, Twitter generated almost exactly 2x as many views as the exact same photo on Flickr. I use both networks daily, although I’d say I’ve been much more active on Flickr over the years.Īfter almost 24 hours of posting the two exact same photos at the same time (on a Thursday evening) on both networks the results are in. I joined Twitter in 2006 and Flickr in 2004. I’ve been active on both platforms for well over a decade. As of today I have 50,211 followers on Twitter and 53,363 followers on Flickr. Interestingly enough I have about the same number of followers on both platforms. ![]() oranges” comparison, and Flickr is admittedly more of a photography centric social network, I find that I engage with photographers on both platforms, even if I also engage with more non-photographers on Twitter.Ī few notes on my unscientific test. While some might call this an “apples vs. ![]() I thought I’d use this announcement to very unscientifically compare the number of views one of my photos received on Twitter vs. Yesterday Twitter announced that they were adding view counts to tweets on Twitter.
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