Other People’s Photos by Lorca Sheppard and Cabot Philbrick
7:30pm at The City Reliquary
370 Metropolitan Avenue (at Havemeyer St), Williamsburg
L train to Metropolitan / G Train to Lorimer
Some of us are hustling for overlooked and underpriced Diane Arbus photos we can consign to auction for thousands of dollars. Others, apparently, sift through old photos at the Chelsea Flea for philosophical needs:
Other People’s Pictures is a documentary about collectors who share an unlikely obsession – snapshots that have been abandoned or lost by their original owners and are now for sale. The film is set at New York City’s Chelsea Flea Market where, every weekend, dozens of collectors sift doggedly through piles, boxes and bins of cast-off photos, ready to pay anywhere from a few cents to hundreds of dollars for a single snapshot. Many of the film’s subjects find that collecting ‘other people’s pictures’ helps them confront the darker aspects of human existence – familial trauma, social injustice, historical atrocity. Others simply appreciate the beauty, humor and mystery of these scavenged images.
OK, but what about a Diane Arbus photo of puppies? How cool would finding something like that be?
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