Found photos

Comprised of over 700,000 pictures, Lee Shulman’s archive of strangers’ Kodachrome slides shows that people in the mid-20th century used photography much as they do today.

My Chicago friend, Jeff Phillips, happened upon a set of 1,000 slides in a secondhand store–a discovery that set him not only on a journey into someone else’s life, but connected him with strangers and got him thinking about the importance of physical photographs and what they mean as a legacy to others. His discovery has

1960s

William J. Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennesse, but grew up in the small Mississippi town of Sumner. He became known as "the father of color photography" for his striking photos of people, events and landscapes in the South. Although he had been been a professional photographer for several years in the South, it wasn't until a visit to New York City in 1967 that Eggleston became known outside that area, when the curator of the Museum of Modern Art saw a collection of Eggleston's slides…

Kitchens in the 1970s were often characterized by bold colors, like avocado green and harvest gold, along with lots of wood paneling and lam...

A time capsule of found photos of women in the 1940s. All snapped in magical Kodachtome color. They capture moments in time like no toher medium