The 2016 Irreverent Vernacular: Holiday Style Exhibition

Deanna Dikeman, Christmas 1970, Sioux City, Iowa
Happy Holidays! Today we take a nostalgic look back at holidays past, evidence that our hope for something magical to happen at this time of year remains. Thank you for sharing some of your photo histories with us, and thank you to Lenscratch Editor Sarah J. Stankey for putting together this post. May your holidays be blessed with love, warmth, comfort, and photography. Don’t forget to take lots of photos (and print them), because today becomes tomorrow before you know it. On behalf of the whole Lenscratch staff, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Season’s Greetings, with so much appreciation for this wonderful community.

©Jamie Johnson, Santa and Me, New York

Heidi Clapp Temple, Christmas 1975, Goffstown, NH

Yorgos Efthymiadis, Mīlu, Somerville, MA

Frankie Suzanne Garr, Santa & Me, Alexandria, VA

Yvette Meltzer, The Middle, Chicago, IL

Maureen Haldeman, Before Email c1950, Santa Monica, CA

Jill V. Grabowski, Christmas with Judie, San Diego, CA

Gina Costa, Family Christmas, Italia

Anne Berry, Santa, Atlanta, GA

Shin Noguchi, Xmas at a cheap hotel on a trip, San Francisco, CA

Marie Triller, Dad, Proctor, VT

Suzanne Révy, Christmas, 1963, Los Angeles, CA

Catharine Amato, Christmas day at Sunny Hillocks.1952, Somerset, UK

Ann VanEpps, found photograph, my aunt and her baby

Frauke Langguth, Weihnachten 1971, Germany

Michael Pointer, Mom’s First Christmas 1933, Wichita, KS

Russ Rowland, Santa’s Eyes, New York City, NY

Caroline Chapin, The Dance, Shrewsbury, NJ

Benjamin Dimmitt, Christmas Morning Mayhem, Clearwater Beach, FL

Nancy Baron, Maggie to Santa, Los Angeles, CA

Patricia Sandler, Fourth Night Peril, Los Angeles, CA

Jim Robertson, Christmas Cards, Flashbulbs & Cigarettes, Springfield, KY

Amanda och Morfar, Phil Dean, Lidingö, Sweden

©Aline Smithson, That year I made everyone pajamas, Los Angeles, CA
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