Oliver Wasow

The Expansible Catalog is an index of pictures offered for sale in cheap, limited editions, loosely based on Wallace Nutting's 1915 catalog of the same name.

What's also interesting about Wasow's project, though, is what it tells us about how we read photography. Art photography was and is about staking out a signature style, while vernacular photography is interesting for almost the opposite reason...

Every morning Wasow posts a found, un-authored photograph where a variety of his 2000+ friends comment. The comments are observations that often parallel pop culture, arts humor or politics as well as reflections of our current culture bumping up against past eras. 

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