Photos, negatives, and slides that I find or that find me. These pictures are highlights or previews of items from my Found Photos series at sorabji.com. I have shared found objects and photos since 1995, though my interest in this hobby was re-invigorated in March, 2009, when I found a fascinating box load of family slides at a thrift shop. I have also shared my receipts with the world for essentially my entire adult life.Tumblr (3.0; @sorabji)http://sorabji.tumblr.com/<img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kud4omfz291qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Desert sands in the foreground, snow-capped mountain peaks in the background.</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/275435822http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/275435822Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:09:58 -0500kodachromefound photofound slide<img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku49dl37C61qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ball Game. April, 1959.</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/268772552http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/268772552Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:12:57 -0500<img src="http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktchutIwPA1qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The only one in this picture with his eye on the ball is the guy in the middle, grinning. Everyone else is like, where the heck is the camera?</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/249407766http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/249407766Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:23:16 -0500kodachrome,.found slidesfound photos<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt4ncveQho1qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I think this picture is from somewhere in Nebraska. The $3.95 Ranch Steak special reminds me of the 99¢ Sirloin special advertised by the Ponderosa Steak House. I can appreciate a cheap steak but 99¢ sounded a little too cheap.</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/244212719http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/244212719Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:41:19 -0500found photosfound slideskodachromeNebraska<img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksvq37mCw61qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Sometimes I try to imagine where a picture was taken. Pictures like this could have been shot anywhere.</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/241531071http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/241531071Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0500<img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksvbtkiirq1qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I hope we get a lot of snow this winter. </p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/238579074http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/238579074Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:53:43 -0500found photofound slidekodakkodachrome<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksinl0b0dD1qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A cellist from 1943 looks through the cracked pane of a glass-mounted slide. Her name is Yolanda, and this slide is dated May 15, 1943. </p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/231503453http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/231503453Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:38:59 -0500found slidesfound photoskodachrome<img src="http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks99uiAKv81qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Boy on a Big Wheel</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/226541837http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/226541837Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:03:00 -0400<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks3mz4AlP01qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Sometimes the look in a child’s eyes bear the disdain and accusation of a much older person.</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/223354895http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/223354895Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:01:51 -0400found photoskodachromeamateur slides<img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krjfowq6Bp1qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>YOU</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/213472298http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/213472298Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:12:31 -0400<img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kr4n1lLpUf1qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Courtship, 1940s</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/206435099http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/206435099Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:27:20 -0400<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqtkfeViA61qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Kid in a Clown Suit.</p> <p>More than the ambivalent child in the clown suit I looked for who and what is on the television. When a human being took up a full screen on a television screen in the 1950s it was for something important. Today television is a rimshot.</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/201513689http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/201513689Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:57:13 -0400<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqk5yvMCdb1qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>You spring from my loin. Now swim!</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/197111351http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/197111351Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:06:31 -0400found photosfound slideskodachrome<img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqhifq5H4Y1qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Big Shoes. </b></p> <p>Big shoes to fill. Well-worn, unshined, long-walkéd shoes to fill.</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/195892746http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/195892746Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:43:01 -0400<img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqaudqF2dq1qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>An Air Force pilot took this picture somewhere in Asia in 1968.</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/193007303http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/193007303Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:17:49 -0400found photosfound slides<img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kq3faorLI51qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Man Standing In His Garden, 1942.</b></p> <p>Something I have taken for granted these past months while scanning hundreds upon hundreds of slides each day is the fact that many people think of America in the 1950s and 1940s as being in black and white. Kodachrome gives the lie to that assumption and shows what we did, of course, know. We know that life was in color before color television and color movies, but how often do we see or pay much mind to real-life color images from the 1940s?</p> <p>This slide is dated 1942. At 67 years old this is the oldest slide in my collection.</p> <p>A friend recently made an interesting point about slides. He said that slides differ from prints because “that piece of film was <i>there</i>.” The scrap of film used for a Kodachrome slide was actually there where the picture was taken.</p> <p>That’s kinda cool.</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/190819951http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/190819951Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:00:00 -0400kodachromefound photoslidekodak<img src="http://23.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpy32jODup1qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Dancing Girl</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/190210315http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/190210315Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:00:00 -0400<img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpwa1r1Zrc1qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>People are busy. People have other things to think about. People have chips to dip and nothing — <i>nothing</i> — to look at.</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/186687575http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/186687575Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:32:15 -0400<img src="http://14.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kprl3j7crW1qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Self-portrait. May, 1961.</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/184604994http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/184604994Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:42:54 -0400found photoektachromeslidefound slides<img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpmujry4LT1qzdvk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Happiness. Happy American people. Is happiness complicated, or is it simple enough that it can only be complicated?</p>http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/182511769http://sorabji.tumblr.com/post/182511769Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:19:00 -0400found photokodachrome