rescued from the dollar box
The photographs nobody kept.
Negatives bought, unwanted, from estate sales — scanned, catalogued, and set down here so the people in them are not forgotten.
From the collections
About the archive
Nobody’s Album is a home for found film — boxes of negatives that turn up at estate sales for a dollar, long after the people who made them are gone and the families who should have kept them did not.
These frames are from the spring of 1971: a young man named John, his partner Carolyn, and their circle of friends — afternoons by the river, a picnic and a fire, a bonsai repotted on newspaper, a kitten in a square of sunlight. Each one is scanned as found, named from the writing on its envelope, and preserved so that a stranger — or, one day, a descendant — can see them again.
Nothing here is for sale. If you recognise your family, any image can be removed, no questions asked.