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Who Is the Man In 445 Mysterious Photo Booth Selfies Taken Between 1930 and 1960? ...

 

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When a series of 445 photo booth portraits — taken by an unidentified man between the 1930s and the 1960s — made headlines in April 2014, many wondered who he was and why he had snapped so many pictures of himself. Was he a photo technician, or did he just love photo booths?

 

After seeing stills from the photo series, Tom Trelenberg was able to identify the man as his uncle, Franklyn Swantek, owner of Swantek Photo Service in Michigan, who passed away in the mid-1980s.

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"This photo could have gotten these men arrested."

A little more about image # 4 ... from time.com, June 2014:

 

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"Today, it might seem like any other informal, casual photograph of a young gay couple enjoying each other's company. But this picture, in fact, reveals far more than that. It was taken in 1953, a time when purposefully vague statutes on morals, lewd conduct, or disorderly conduct in many states allowed the police to target and arrest gay and lesbian people for such transgressions as wearing items of clothing of the opposite sex, propositioning someone of the same sex, or even holding hands with a member of the same sex. This photo could have gotten these men arrested.

 

"The image is part of the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries -- the largest repository of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer materials in the world. The picture was once owned by the young man on the right, Joseph John Bertrund Belanger. Belanger, for most of his life, was a devoted collector of LGBT history. Born in Edmonton, Canada, in 1925, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force and was a member of the Mattachine Society in the early 1950s. It is thanks to his foresight that the image survives today.

 

"What remains so remarkable and moving about this particular image is how quietly radical it feels all these years later. Belanger and another man have found a private safe-space in the unlikeliest of places -- an ordinary photo booth -- where they felt so at ease, and so themselves, they could kiss each other far from the prying eyes of a disapproving public."

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I forgot how cute she could be with short hair.

Yes indeed! That shot (#36) is from 1953.

 

Believe it or not, I found another one of the two of them in a photo booth! (Did anyone ever dress better for a cheap date?) ...

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And this is my favorite one of her with short hair ...

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Yes indeed! That shot (#36) is from 1953.

 

Believe it or not, I found another one of the two of them in a photo booth! (Did anyone ever dress better for a cheap date?) ...

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And this is my favorite one of her with short hair ...

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Yes, beautiful. Could they even ever have a "cheap" date?

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