Star of Tom
Star of Tom
It was Thanksgiving 2015 when I realized I wasn’t going anywhere during the month of December, so it seemed as good as time as any to finally create a series of photographs of a favorite vintage holiday decoration I have owned since 1999, one which was occasionally hauled up to the roof for seasonal cheer.
But this time, giving great thought to this piece of DIY homemade charm, I started to think about the indecipherable numeric codes and letters printed on foil-strips affixed to the star; could this be some sort of mail-in order product that used to appear in the back pages of a Popular Mechanics-style magazine from the 1950s? Whatever the origin, these photographs taken of this remnant of post-war Americana. The “special effects” were captured in-camera with long exposures.
