Yael Eban and Matthew Gamber - Dead Ringer

In this digital world the tactility of the printed past becomes ever more intriguing. To consider where all these photos are, where they go, and what they mean is to tap into endless human histories, both big and small. Today there are almost too many images to process, make sense of, or to give proper attention. Even so, over the last one hundred plus years a wonderful trove has been left behind with which artists can create new worlds. Fetishizing and reevaluating vintage, vernacular photos has a well-trodden tradition. To find new insights and unique perspectives on the genre is rare. But even rarer is to find disparate images that have had separate journeys around the world only to reconvene back here in this collection.  Working together for the past seven years, Yael Eban and Matthew Gamber have collected the pairs of vernacular photographs found in Dead Ringer in thrift stores, antique markets and on eBay. Either sold as pairs or found separately from different sources, the frui