Vintage Photos Have Fun Art on the Reverse

Many vintage photos have interesting, business-like and fun art on the reverse, especially cabinet cards from 1870- 1890's. A cabinet card is about 4.25 x 6.5 inches in size. A CDV (carte de visite - from 1855-1880's) is smaller, usually 2.5 x 4 inches in size.

This CDV shows devils with a camera.

This cabinet card shows an angel on a camera.

Cabinet Card and CDV compared for size.

See many more examples in my gallery Vintage Photo Reverse Artistic Ads

The Peculiar Pear Pickers

I loaned my critter cam to a friend who lives in the country near Peculiar, Mo. He has been able to get images of coyote and deer and now some pear pickers. They were unaware that a camera was taking pictures as they picked. My friend was surprised to see the images when he checked the camera the next day, but the pear pickers are friends of his, so the law was not called!

See more still images and a time-lapse video I made in the The Peculiar Pear Pickers gallery.

Camera Themed Greeting Cards

I started collecting cameras and images in the early 1970's. Along the way, I picked up greeting cards using photography and cameras as themes.
My very favorite one is this early 1900's Thanksgiving post card. Note the macabre caption.

This old Valentine is 7" high and her eyes move when the hand with the heart is moved

See all the cards in the Camera Greeting Card Gallery

Photographers in Movies

Ally Sheedy played the part of a photojournalist in the 1993 movie Lethal Exposure, shot for tv by NBC. She takes a photo of a prisoner being killed in an airport. Later she flies to Paris to cover a trial and discovers a police officer involved in the case was also involved in the killing of the prisoner.  She then gets an incriminating photo of the officer.
I have not seen the movie so do not know how it ends, probably with negative and positive results. :~)

See more photogs in movies here.