Last night I went to an amazing photography show. Help Me: Found Photos from the Collection of Gillian McCain is a beautifully curated exhibition of lost pictures now on view at the Camera Club of New York. The show is co-curated by Gillian McCain and Megan Cump.These are snapshots, Polaroids, etc, that have been bought, found or stolen by the collector. Her eye for the disturbing and haunted is just uncanny. Every image has a mysterious poignancy. Every image is narratively rich, with so much going on outside the frame, so much depth to the people looking in to the camera.
From a 1960s era woman on the toilet, to a mug shot of "Kathy D. Stoner" what is perhaps most powerful about the photographs in this collection is that they got lost. They are private and personal items that meant something, at some point in time, in some way or another, to someone. And somehow over the years they scattered and found their way into an ebay lot or a flea market shoebox...
This is great show, and the collector has an incredible, distinctive eye.
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