Why would anyone collect discarded photographs of people they don't know? Not celebrities or models or people of historical importance, just regular people on vacation, attending birthday parties or mugging for the camera. "Why would people collect anything?" counters Fern Rickman, one of nine snapshot enthusiasts profiled in Lorca Shepperd and Cabot Philbrick's short, intriguing documentary. The filmmakers haunted New York's Chelsea Flea Market searching out snapshot fans, most of whom prove strikingly perceptive and articulate about the impulses that drive them. Some collect like postcard enthusiasts, gravitating toward certain categories of images: Halloween, beac...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
53 mins