black and whites


14
Sep 10

Black and whites

Do you like old pictures with no context? Do you like imagining things out of thin air based on the momentary expression that passed across someone’s face decades ago?

This is the place for you. Check out the black and whites, from the beginning.

If you’re caught up and want to see the newest installments to the old collection of pictures, click here. Four pictures, reaching across generations, and decidedly less than 4,000 words.


7
Sep 10

Black and whites

The favorite section of the site for the antique store set returns for a brief and triumphant run this week. If you’d like to see what all the fuss has been about — and indeed there has been a fuss — start at the beginning of the Blackandwhite section.

If you’ve been keeping up, then I invite you to click here and return to the great upper Midwest for four quick pictures.

More of substance when time permits.


31
Aug 10

Black and whites

So, then, just briefly. There are three more new photographs in the black and whites section. For the newest installments, go here. Almost all of the photographs in that section are of random people who are strangers, featuring lives I make up on the spot as hasty creative writing, or a little dose of history if there are any context clues.

One of them in this week’s batch is from my family.

And writing the tidbits (all true, for a change) about the picture I realized: there are a lot of cool stories in that family.


24
Aug 10

Black and whites

Before I fall asleep, which will happen any minute now, there are four new installments in the Black and White section. That link starts you at the beginning. If, by some miracle of amusement or pity on your part you’ve been following along, you can see the latest starting here.


17
Aug 10

The black and whites

I returned to the Black and White section of the site.

Since no one remembers this — it has been a while — I occasionally pick up random photos and try to figure out their context, or create one of my own. I have tons of these waiting to be scanned. Click the previous link to start at the beginning. Go here to see today’s four photographs. I’ll try to make this a weekly exercise once again.