What makes you feel for a certain picture? Now when I’m participating in the choice of photos from the collection of Carl Curman for Flickr Commons on the Internet, I evidently find my own favorites.
The photos we choose to show should be charged with something special, both in appearance and in contents – directed to the international multi-million public that upload their own photos and/or visit Flickr to view, comment on or download other’s. A stream of photos is shown continuously and we want to present pictures that capture the eye. The photos should also be representative to the motifs of Carl Curman.
This photo in all its modesty is one of my favorites. It’s taken in 1862, in Fiskebäckskil on the Swedish west coast. A viewer on Flickr has made a commentary that the image reminds of a movie scene. Myself, I associate more to a painting, or maybe to a dream. I think it has a touch of surrealism, with the crinolines in the austere coastal landscape. A hazy veil on the photo gives an extra feeling of magic.
>> Anna Boman is a member of the Flickr Commons team at The Swedish National Heritage Board