For week of Oct. 11- An Edwardian Family Album

I was searching for artistic renditions of family albums on Google and home upon these examples from an amateur photographer named Jack Urton, an amateur but skilled photographer during the turn of the 19th century. 480 negatives were discovered in a cupboard in an old house in Liverpool, England a few years ago, and these photos have been shown in museums as documentation of an average middle class family's life during the late 1800s.

They are not anything groundbreaking, but they are incredible in portraying aspects of life rarely documented during that era--most photographs we see from the time are formal portraits. They almost seem to sweet, too perfect to be true. Like Mary Poppins come to life. They are intimate, yet educational.

I find this one to be especially beautiful, with sky and land both dramatically captured by film in a way that digital isn't able to do without combining multiple exposures.