Photography Flashbacks

Retro, yes, camp no in this image, a Kodachrome slide, full view, with two solitary figures with their head's down.

Let's start out fresh, fresh as a Kodachrome slide that's yet to be tweaked in Photoshop. Flashing back to a friend or relative's past travels is one of the reason we like old photographs.

Sometimes you find gems--photos that are coveted for the campiness. Camp can be anything from flower power dresses and behive hairdos to anything that spells F-l-o-r-i-d-a or C-a-l-i-f-o-r-n-i-a in the middle of the last century. Palm trees, striking blue skies, beaches, and, yes, bathing suits, retro often means less is more, and that goes for clothing too. It extends, also, to the 70s formal, the A-frame of anything from a cadallac's rear end to a Tiki A-frame, style hotel (building with no flat roof, but, instead, the shape of the building forms an "A."

Check out some of the photographs here and you'll find a few examples of here and find the campy photographs.

Whether it's a bathing beauty or young men poolside, camp gets big bucks.

It's my first month teaching Photos Restoration and it's going well, interesting even. To see the course details go
here.