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bluesilverkdgYou must go here: http://listoftheday.blogspot.com/2007/09/great-olan-mills-photos.html (Yes, it's totally safe for work, unless your office does not allow laughter.) Thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
exposit for the awesome link.
If you have ever had portraits made at Olan Mills, Sears or any other photography studio (particularly during the '70s and/or '80s) then you will appreciate it even more.
For the record, my senior picture was taken along the Oregon Trail. I am leaning up on a split rail fence in a couple of the poses, like the pioneer chick I was. When I was about 12, my family and I were photographed in The Library, AND we were yellowy-orange to boot! I'm pretty sure that Camaro Boy asked me to my junior prom. And my mother (still to this day) has me captured in a wine glass in their living room, circa 1989. I don't think that my family personally has any of the other poses/backdrops, but I'm pretty confident that some of yours do! If you'd like to share any of them with me, feel free. We could have a contest: Worst Olan Mills Photographic Experience or something. If any of you have the floating head/full view picture like the second one, I'd be especially interested to see those. My cousins had portraits made like that when I was little, and I was *so* jealous. I wanted one of my very own!
I must go dig up some of my old (bad) photos. I actually worked for a portrait studio just out of high school. I set appointments for them, and by doing so, got free family portraits. (Street value of $199.99!) Fortunately, most of those were just set in front of a plain gray backdrop, except for the one of my mother gazing into a mirror, holding a bouquet of (obviously) fake flowers. Ahhh, the memories..
exposit for the awesome link.If you have ever had portraits made at Olan Mills, Sears or any other photography studio (particularly during the '70s and/or '80s) then you will appreciate it even more.
For the record, my senior picture was taken along the Oregon Trail. I am leaning up on a split rail fence in a couple of the poses, like the pioneer chick I was. When I was about 12, my family and I were photographed in The Library, AND we were yellowy-orange to boot! I'm pretty sure that Camaro Boy asked me to my junior prom. And my mother (still to this day) has me captured in a wine glass in their living room, circa 1989. I don't think that my family personally has any of the other poses/backdrops, but I'm pretty confident that some of yours do! If you'd like to share any of them with me, feel free. We could have a contest: Worst Olan Mills Photographic Experience or something. If any of you have the floating head/full view picture like the second one, I'd be especially interested to see those. My cousins had portraits made like that when I was little, and I was *so* jealous. I wanted one of my very own!
I must go dig up some of my old (bad) photos. I actually worked for a portrait studio just out of high school. I set appointments for them, and by doing so, got free family portraits. (Street value of $199.99!) Fortunately, most of those were just set in front of a plain gray backdrop, except for the one of my mother gazing into a mirror, holding a bouquet of (obviously) fake flowers. Ahhh, the memories..
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Date: 2008-01-17 07:58 pm (UTC)But I remember my cousin was in middle school in the '90s (1994, I want to say), and they had the coolest thing. It was big white block numbers that said "94" and she was sitting on them. That actually still holds up over time and doesn't look anywhere near as dorky as some of these do.