I almost missed this vintage box of slides at the antique mall the other day, even after walking by it a few times. One final round of perusing the locked cases and I suddenly noticed that one slide box among the "Vacation" and "Holiday" labels was strangely marked, "X Private" --plus, a person's name was scribbled, and even scratched out on the box. Everything added up to a mystery that I simply had to inquire upon further. So after asking the employee to unlock the case, I then opened the slide box, pulled out a few slides, and then held them up to the light, one by one. Yep, just as I was hoping / expecting-- bare naked ladies of the 60's and 70's. Some are posed with colorful backgrounds and props, and some are photographed in more of a portrait studio style with a single color backdrop, etc. Now this will probably wind up being a multiple part post, so for now, here are a few of the more interesting ones (3 different women: 4 pix of one, 2 of another, and a single shot of the third.) And to make things even more interesting, I photographed them through my dusty old vintage Guild Mini-Viewer (see original post about that HERE in the 2023 archive) while outside on my porch on a very bright day, thus causing my camera phone to produce some rather surreal, light-bending, pic results. Neato! I'll post more of these over the coming months, so stay tuned for that... and I do apologize for the watermarking, but as always, the re-blogger / tumblr image groupies out there (except for a small handful) just do not know how to link back to my blog, especially in the case of original nudie content. It's infuriating, but I totally applaud those that do!
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So that's where I lost those slides, that was from my lothario days!
I like the skill involved here -- lighting is good, there's a set (that tree feels like it is cursed, though), the posing is good, good job unknown camera guy!
Picture 6 is a hair cut I hope never comes back!
This is great. I'm always excited when I see a slide box. And I deeply love the effects you are getting photographing these through your viewer. That weird gnarly sci-fi tree sculpture make the first woman look like she's posing on an original Star Trek set.
I wouldn't have given that box a second look myself, still less noticed the label; lucky you did.
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