clipped from: www.brainpickings.org Polish photographer Andrzej Kramarz explores both in Things.
The series, inspi(red) by the horror vacui style of folk art, captures “portraits” of objects from the past, laid out on the ground into densely packed displays.
A typical sight in Eastern European antique street markets, the objects — old, worn-out souvenirs of the past — are of little monetary worth, but offer an inc(red)ible glimpse of eras gone by.
From war paraphernalia to antique jewelry to vintage hardware tools, the images read like powerful visual chapters from a textbook on sociocultural and political history.
