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Anyone set on going to Brimfield in July? Knowing that friends like Kenyan Lewis and Hitoshi from Jantiques in Tokyo regularly attend for the duration of the week makes me think that it’s worth going again. Having Kenyan as a guide at Brimfield makes it a lot easier to put the whole thing into perspective. He has the whole place mapped out in his head and keen eyes for rare unique objects. One thing that is calling me back is that the camera guy is coming back for the July shows. This guy’s got everything. Rare lenses, bodies, filters, lighting kits, Polaroids, etc. Notable items in this set of photographs here are: the fox head-piece, the wooden ghost, the bust form, the full skeleton minus lower jaw, Kenyan in action, the flood light, the Arabic stop sign, and the R L calling out to the Ralph Lauren prop people, and that 8×10 camera which was only $225 although I was told that it did not have a home in my apartment. Anyway, I hope someone got it.
Just three and a half hours north of New York, the craziest flea market happens three times per year. On monday night, we drove up to the Quality Inn in Auburn, MA to rest for a few hours before heading to the shows at Brimfield. The Brimfield Shows are happening through the weekend. We’d been told that if you really want to find the best stuff you have to go on the first day; and while running around like wild animals, we ran into friends with the same motivation trying to find things before the prop stylists, the set builders, the J. Crew’s, Ralph Lauren’s, and Tommy Hilfiger’s. The turn-out was pretty incredible; it is the physical manifestation of eBay. I feel that more than ever people are looking for things that have longevity and history as opposed to things that are pre-fabricated and ill-constructed. Although I never really buy much while I’m there, it’s worth going just to witness the spectacle. These are some of the things I found there just walking around.
This weekend I went up to Cambridge to shoot some portraits at MIT, a mix of inventors, designers, and scientists who are trying to create a better future for our world. Some heavy-hitters. The next day my friend Ari Kardasis and I drove around looking for some quality food and happened upon the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. Check it out if you are ever in Boston and also take a look at Ari’s website, aThematics. It’s fun to see what he’s working on and thinking through.
All images copyright James Ryang 2010
These are the last group of images from Brimfield. CoolHunting.com did a feature on the Brimfield Antiques Market using some of these images. For the full article, click HERE. Or you can view an image gallery of my photographs from Brimfield on the Wallpaper website by clicking below.
The Brimfield Antique and Flea Market Shows take place three times a year up in Brimfield, Massachusetts. For one week, the entire town gets overtaken. Vendors and buyers alike travel from around the country and the globe to buy, sell, bargain, and trade for a week straight. It’s as if Ebay exploded and landed in one town. A buyer can find objects from the rarest of items to the mundane. These are images from Saturday of this past weekend, the last show for the 2009 season. The 2010 show dates are May 11 – 16, July 13 – 18, and Sept 7 – 12, 2010.
