Slide Collectin'

Is it creepy?

You wish.

Presumably photos bought at a flea market or somewhere entered the market legitimately, and usually you don't have a clue who the people in them are. I've never bought or collected any of these, but one time while renovating a boarding house I found some old polaroids that had fallen behind a fireplace mantel, and the narrative aspects of that were interesting. Of course, each photo contained its own little story, but then they all together told another: these were pictures of friends and good times, taken by some guy who rented half a room by the week in this run-down house, and probably fondly kept until they were lost in a crack in the fireplace.

We cleaned them off and laid them out with other funky old stuff we found around the house, and eventually one of the new owners contacted the former owner, who recognized the guy in the pictures and somehow got them returned.

I know they enter the market legitimately but the fact that the people buying them don't know the people in them. I just find the idea of wanting to look at other people's personal memories a bit weird.