Time-Lapse Obituaries: Dames & Games

Time-Lapse Obituaries: Dames & Games

For years I saved obituary photos of notable people in the daily press.

I’d read the obituaries aka the Irish Sports Page, bend ’em, throw them into a box. Over the years those boxes held thousands of obits.

I determined that after years of saving them for unexplainable reasons it was time for them to go.

Hence this new media tribute to old media largely no longer extant, much the same as the folks therein.

Despite this being an obituary collection, print is not dead.

Unlike the bulk of the portraits in the obituary collection, the selections here are of famous people.
 
Part I is “Femmes Fatales” which highlights the achievements of interesting women: actresses, politicians, strippers and more. 
 
Part II is “World of Sport” highlighting famous athletic personalities from the golden era of sports (which ain’t today.)
 
This piece was done with a fading intervalometer on the timelapsed femmes and and an old scratched Nikon on both.