A vinous travel through time
A new year is beginning, let's remind the great moments we went through in the past year, moments whose greatness was often beyond our understanding of their real, unique value. Casual drinking in good company for example is one of these human activities that make life worth living, more than the superficial pursuit of wealth or other recognition or status objectives. The people pictured on this story enjoyed some kind of togetherness years ago, they paused a second in the swirl of their everyday life holding a glass with friends and family, and had not this snap being shot by one of them, we'd ignore that in this somewhere and sometime something really meaningful occured...
As always I picked all these documents (except the last one) in street flea markets here and there in France, mostly in either the Loire region or Paris. I am a fan of these vide-greniers, brocantes and marchés aux puces where you can find everything from the plastic junk of our modern era to old dusty stuff that seems to have really been found in an attic. I find lots of diverse stuff in these flea-market foragings, including things that I'll use in everyday life like kitchen tools and old wine glasses, but these stacks of pictures are always touching because it is often obvious that the last person who took part to these anonymous events is gone.
Preciosas
Posted by: Rafa Bernabé | January 01, 2015 at 08:44 PM
Thanks for sharing these. They're lovely, touching, and inspiring.
Posted by: Ned Swain | March 13, 2015 at 03:27 AM