While these are obviously not taken in a photobooth, they still have a certain spontaneous anonymity. The study and collection of vernacular photography, or found anonymous snapshots, shares a common gene with found photobooth strips. Both tend to posses a certain spirit of mystery and toss-away carelessness. Rarely does this genre of photography appear staged or premeditated, and when it does it seems to be purely for the benefit of the photographer and not for some higher meaning or motive. These photos (circa 1920s-1940s?) provide a nice historical reference to everyday rural life. They were found in a secondhand store in Savannah, Ga.
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