Found Images — Real Life
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On the nostalgia for image scarcity
Found Images On the nostalgia for image scarcity Rob Horning January 24, 2022 share Image: Unnamed from the Internet K-Hole collection. http://reallifemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Found-Images.mp3 Full-text audio version of this essay. I like found objects. They imply that things can still be lost. They don’t feel serendipitous so much as glitches in a life that feels increasingly preformatted and algorithmic to me as I proceed through my usual, pandemic-circumscribed routines, the sum of my consumer behavior reflected back at me in ways I can’t begin to fully account for on all the scre
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