Real Superheroes

About a month ago I saw Dulce Pinzón's photographic series The Real Story of Superheroes in Times online. The series depicts 12 Mexican immigrants in New York dressed in superhero costumes going about their everyday work. At first I found the photos amusing and a bit funny, up until they stroke me with bitterness and strong agony.























The series did a good job on describing how those immigrant workers have to struggle at work to keep a roof over the heads of their families both here and back in Mexico.


Sadly beautiful, and beautifully sad.

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VINTAGE STRIPPERS

(As I wrote in trendhunter.com)
Noted on the back of one of the photos “27 years old, Jewish, German, Spanish. Singer and dancer. While her name, Eve Holmes, is written on front.















Seeing the range of these old photos made me wonder what kind of stories lay behind them, of how those ladies are doing, how were their love lives, etc, etc. My curiosity related to the pictures was haunting me, especially when I came to the part where the lucky guy who owns them wrote on most of the photos: “The photos came from a collection of over 400 Polaroid photos of strippers trying out for dancing jobs at a So. Cal club. They were taken from the late 1960’s through the early 1970’s. I bought the entire collection for $10.”

Now...can’t you ever just forget that?

Go check out the rest of the Polaroids here


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