Feet on carpet while reading a book about photography – Antique Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Feet on carpet while reading a book about photography, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Feet on carpet while reading a book about photography
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Two bare feet rest on a patterned rug while the rest of the body stays out of frame, the reader's attention fixed on a book about photography. The picture is a small study of ordinary leisure, but the subject turns the camera back on itself: a book about making pictures, read by someone whose own pose is left to the viewer's imagination. Images like this were common in books and magazines of the period, where modest domestic scenes gave illustrators and photographers a way to show everyday life without a formal setting. Worth noticing is the cropping, which makes the feet the main subject and lets the book's title stay just out of reach.
| Original scan | 1,742 × 2,613 px · prints to 6 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 229534338_995b767ba4_o purpose striatic |
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