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Found Art?

While I can definitely see the interest in these images as cultural history, I think their resurrection (through their recovery/re-placement on the site/re-naming - vernacular photography?) also effects an aesthetic reinvention. The snapshot gains artistic importance? Another example of how context affects arguments made through and about certain material. (Perhaps an interesting comparison to the high art montage on YouTube.) Is this an effect of the increasing visibility of the snapshot - something intimate that now has an audience?

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