Found Object
Found objects photographed on site or table top.


A found object in everyday life is an object that is found by chance or when it is searched for. In art though the object is selected rather than found (objet trouvé), and most importantly it has received a new identity as art by the artist, with or without modification. Historically a tradition has been established how to interpret this type of artwork in this context to distinguish it from an ordinary object that is found. In photography it is usually not a straightforward picture of the object because as always the photo is an interpretation and it is often edited afterwards to adjust its aesthetics or to suggest a specific atmosphere (enhanced by the title or a description), which gives the photographic found object a special place in this realm.


Found Object
All the pages with Found objects

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Found Object 01 - Crushed soft drink can
Found Object 02 - Disintegrated trunk
Found Object 03 - Foil wrapped 3-pack
Found Object 04 - Gloves discarded by owner
Found Object 05 - Burnt out firecrackers
Found Object 06 - Disposed Cola cans
Found Object 07 - Broken concrete slab
Found Object 08 - Lost bear
Found Object 09 - Lost bottle
Found Object 10 - Provisional garbage can
Found Object 11 - JB Rare Scotch Whisky
Found Object 12 - Ultra fresh insoles
Found Object 13 - Xeroxed shirt sleeve
Found Object 14 - Striped shirt sleeve
Found Object 15 - Dehydrated seed pod exhibited
Found Object 16 - Patch of shredded cardboard
Found Object 17 - Patch of shredded cardboard
Found Object 18 - Sliced corrugated cardboard
Found Object 19 - Shredded cardboard knitwork
Found Object 20 - Casually constructed installation
Found Object 21 - En route to maximum entropy
Found Object 22 - Wine foil wrap bottle 1
Found Object 23 - Wine foil wrap bottle 2
Found Object 24 - Modified plastic chair
Found Object 25 - Pink plastic chair
Found Object 26 - Lone recalcitrant chair
Found Object 27 - Destinated lunch chair
Found Object 28 - Worker's plastic chair
Found Object 29 - Bottle top undisposed
Found Object 30 - Red striped cotton tea towel
Found Object 31 - Arcane landscape with static artifact
Found Object 32 - Pulled down by gravity
Found Object 33 - An office table in the garden
Found Object 34 - Wrinkled wine foil wrap
Found Object 35 - Garbage filled lunch room
Found Object 36 - The remnants of a failed project
Found Object 37 - Fabricating an abstract found object
Found Object 38 - Humble houseplant immortalized
Found Object 39 - Pink frayed scrap
Found Object 40 - Sporadic emergence behind grid
Found Object 41 - Sporadic emergence behind grid
Found Object 42 - Yellow baby spoons
Found Object 43 - Overgrown ruin with sporadic stuff
Found Object 44 - Cyclops metal box
Found Object 45 - Greetings from UPS
Found Object 46 - Encountered twice
Found Object 47 - Heavy machine part levitated
Found Object 48 - It fell from the sky



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