“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst”*…
Doug Battenhausen spends much of his working hours searching for pictures no one else cares about.
They’re the kind taken by people would never be considered ‘photographers’, the kind that no one has even thought about for years, where any sense of artistry is purely accidental.
Instead they’re pictures of drunk friends at grotty house parties or silly sleepovers, landscapes snapped from car windows on boring drives, and assorted images that Doug can only describe as “strangely mundane”…
Learn more– and see more abandoned images– at “The internet’s forgotten shit pics are accidentally amazing,” and then visit the motherlode: Battenhausen’s Tumblr, Internet History.
* Henri Cartier-Bresson
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As we smile at serendipity, we might spare a thought for the source of today’s title quote, Henri Cartier-Bresson; he died on this date in 2004. A master of the candid and pioneer of street photography, he was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. With other luminaries (Robert Capa, David Seymour, and others), he founded Magnum Photos. a photographers’ co-op that covered the world for news outlets and other publishers. His Magnum coverage of of Gandhi’s funeral in India in 1948 and the last stage of the Chinese Civil War in 1949 brought him international acclaim.
View his Magnum portfolio here.
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