DAVID ELLINGSEN PHOTOGRAPHY

More creepy kids…and no Photoshop on those eyes…honest.

See other images from my foraging trips at the following links, or click on the Lost + Found category down the right hand column:

Brothers and Sisters
Tintypes
Creepy Kids
Howlett Euclid Portraits
Good, clean fun
Teacher, Teacher

More from my Lost + Found collection of portrait photography. This portrait I couldn’t resist…almost too perfect…and it reminded me of one of my favorite teachers in elementary school.

See other images from my foraging trips at the following links, or click on the Lost + Found category down the right hand column:

Brothers and Sisters
Tintypes
Creepy Kids
Howlett Euclid Portraits

More from my Lost + Found collection of portrait photography. This is a light hearted series I found recently…but I can’t figure out why the priest is in there.

See other images from my foraging trips at the following links, or click on the Lost + Found category down the right hand column:

Brothers and Sisters
Tintypes
Creepy Kids
Howlett Euclid Portraits
Teacher, Teacher

Cool.
My friend Farrell has been keeping an eye on my LOST + FOUND series and just sent me this great link with the top 25 historical photographs. Gorgeous.
Thanks Farrell!

More from my Lost + Found collection of portrait photography. According to the stamp on the reverse, these are from the Howlett Euclid Studio in Winnipeg.

See other images from my foraging trips at the following links, or click on the Lost + Found Category down the right hand column:

Brothers and Sisters
Tintypes
Creepy Kids

More from my Lost + Found collection of portrait photography.

See other images from my foraging trips at the following links, or click on the Lost + Found Category down the right hand column:
Brothers and Sisters
Tintypes

Photo by Pat Clancy

More from my Lost + Found collection of portrait photography. These two gorgeous little tintypes were jumbled in amongst hundreds of other regular photographs in a big box…I would guess they are in excess of 150 years old.

See other images from my foraging trips at the following links:
Brothers and Sisters

Recently I’ve been very interested in Found Photography…especially as it relates to the art, craft and evolution of the portrait.

There’s something about finding a portrait from 1869 in a shoe box at the back of a thrift store that really gets my mind going. Initially, just the fact that it has survived 140 years to end up in my hand seems important enough. The craftsmanship that this implies always impresses me and sometimes makes me consider our current popular archival printing techniques, not to mention all the photographs I now store on my computer and where they shall end up.

Often small clues present themselves around the edge of the image or on the reverse…date, studio, city, cryptic hand-writing…but the content of the photograph itself remains the only context available to the viewer. It feels such a pure expression of photography.

I found this series of photographs all together in Winnipeg,  as if someone had sorted them already.
I suppose being one of four brothers gave me an immediate affinity for them…

Photo credit: Shaver, Chelsea, MI