Is staging your own photos an option? Old typewriters, super 8 cameras and sixties clothes can be picked up from yard sales and thrift stores (or borrowed from friends) for next to nothing.

Si

You read my mind. In fact I have an odd collection of old clothes and cameras. So yes. And that’s probably what I’ll do.

My hesitation comes from:

A.) Difficulty in matching the period between items.

B.) Lazy.

This is kinda what I’m going for.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y234/jupiterboy/HED.jpg

James,

I would advise you to check out eBay. They have a photograph section with lots of original/one-of-a-kind photos. I just bought a bunch of photos from the 1800’s that I plan to use in some design/art work.

Check out the comtemporary section, but also the antique one since people seem to put photos from the 60’s and 70’s in this section as well.

I have a few old catalogs (1969 & 72) but the copyright prevents me from using them in a collage illustration.

eduardo recife at misprinted type works with similar images for his collages; almost every one has a 50s/60s theme to it. presumably as they’re not being used in a ’commercial’ sense they’re ok to be used in this way, or perhaps copyright laws are different in brazil?

appropriate (ie the legal issues i guess) use of ’found’ images is always confusing.

I contacted the holder of copyright and got a quick refusal, I’d guess because it is simpler to say no. Anyway, yes. I like Eduardo’s work and have always come back to collage as a form. Here I’m interested in the subtle communication of the time we (Pam and I) are from—the convergence of the pre-digital with the contemporary. We are both a bit old school maybe.

So I’m just going to shoot this as I much prefer an SX-70 as a head.

Thanks all. Off to thrift!