Made from family photographs acquired through eBay, Question for Seller features photographs that no one else has bid for. The seller is asked the question: How did you come across the photos and what, if anything, do you know about them? Their replies are as important as the photographs they sell. They allude to disappearing histories, where personal photographs reveal fragments of past lives, through photographic processes that are themselves becoming obsolete.
archive, analogue photographs, bookwork, everyday, family album, found photograph, memory, market value, material culture, photography, social history, vernacular photographs
Media of Output:
Question for Seller, 2006: 64 270gsm pages, 14 ‘Glassine’ (tissue) sheets, Edition of 1, 87 photographs mounted with Archival Photo Black Corners Various sizes (largest: 21 x 16cm, smallest 3 x 2cm) Brown Carlton Collection Cover W: 33cm x H: 42cm D: 3cm