Anonymous
1950's
Silver Gelatin Print
3 x 2 inches
#9
Anonymous
1950's
Silver Gelatin Print
3 x 2 inches
#9
Anonymous
Photograph of Wa-Ha-Gunta
1918
Real photo postcard
3.5 x 5.5 inches
#10
Anonymous
Nasal Reconstruction Photos
1990’s
4.75 x 3.5 inches each
#11
Anonymous
Three Polaroid Misprints
c 2000
Polaroid
2.5 x 4.25 inches each
#12
Anonymous
Untitled
1940’s
Silver gelatin print
8 x 10 inches
#13
Anonymous
Untitled
1930’s
Sepia print
5 x 7 inches
#14
Anonymous
Two Photographs of
Raymond Ellingson of Hettinger ND
1920’s
Real Photo Postcards
3.5 x 5.5 inches each
#15
Anonymous
Fort Madison Prison
1910’s
Real Photo Postcard
3.5 x 5.5 inches
#16
Anonymous
Lot of 9 Hairdressing Photos
1960’s
3.5 x 3.5 inches each
#17
Anonymous
Double Exposure
1960’s
5 x 3.5 inches
#18
Anonymous
My Mother and I…..
1950’s
5 x 3 inches
#19
Anonymous
Triple Portrait of Miss Jessie Hale
1910’s
Real Photo Postcard
5.3 x 3.3 inches
#20
Simonds Photo Co.
Eclipse
1925
Real Photo Postcards
5.25 x 3.3 inches
#21
Anonymous
German Soldier in Gas Mask
1940’s
Real Photo Postcard
3.3 x 5.25 inches
#22
Anonymous
Failed Trick Photo
1940’s
Silver Gelatin Print
2.15 x 3.25 inches
#23
Anonymous
Dallas Tornado
1957
Lot of 9
5 x 4 inches each
#24
Anonymous
U.S. Air Force Photo
Atomic Blast
c. 1957
5 x 4 inches
#25
Anonymous
Defaced Photo
1959
3.5 x 3.5 inches each
#26
Anonymous
Full plate Tintype
c. 1890
6.5 x 8.5 inches
#27
Anonymous
Child in Leaves
c. 1940
3.25 x 5 inches
#28
Anonymous
Boys in Snow
c. 1940
3.5 x 3 inches
#29
Anonymous
Nude Polaroid
c. 1940
4.25 x 3.25 inches
#30
Anonymous
Paper Moon / Cowboy Real Photo Postcard
c. 1910
3.5 x 5.5 inches
#31
Anonymous
Policeman, Real photo Postcard
c. 1910
3.5 x 5.5 inches
#32
Anonymous
Boy with Eyes Covered
c. 1950
6.75 x 9.5 inches
#33
Anonymous
Kids in Costume
c. 1940
3 x 4.5 inches
#34
Anonymous
Man doing Pull-Ups
c. 1940
3 x 4.5 inches
#35
Anonymous
Color Misprint
c. 1980
3.5 x 5 inches
#36
Anonymous
Diving Triptych
c. 1940
3 x 2 inches
#37
Anonymous
Torn Photo of Young Man in Bed
1958
5 x 3.5 inches
#38
Anonymous
Addict Diptych
1959
3.5 x 3.5 inches
#39
Anonymous
Cascade Summit
c. 1920
2.25 x 3.25 inches
#40
Anonymous
Crime Scene
1978
4 x 3.5 inches
#41
Anonymous
Couch
c. 1950
4 x 4 inches
#42
Anonymous
Father and Sons
c. 1960
3.25 x 4 inches
#43
Anonymous
Black Man
c. 1930
2.5 x 3 inches
#44
Anonymous
Man with Face Inked Out
c. 1920
2 x 3 inches
#45
Anonymous
Woman with Lens Flare Triptych
c. 1940
3.5 x 5 inches each
#46
Anonymous
Press Photo of Women’s Shoes
1933
9 x 5.5 inches
#47
SEQUENCES and SINGULARITIES
Vernacular Photography from the Collection of Nicholas Osborn
Exhibition Dates: March 10 – April 29, 2017
To collect photographs is to collect the world (Susan Sontag). Since the camera’s invention nearly 200 years ago, an inconceivable number of images have been produced documenting every aspect of the world around us. While a great number of these images have been preserved in museums and archives, the vast majority of them, most meant to serve a specific purpose long since fulfilled, have been discarded and forgotten. Collector Nicholas Osborn has spent the last twenty years digging through these lost images at flea markets and estate sales, in antique stores and online, searching for images as striking as any in the fine art canon. In Sequences and Singularities, he brings together work from a wide variety of makers across the full breadth of the 20th century – crime scene investigators and hairdressers, casual family snap-shooters and small studio photographers – that collapse the distances between fine art and document, image and object.