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    While researching British advertising, my grandma looks over my shoulder and says “Where did you find that?!” Then proceeds to fish out the original photo that her father took of her in 1940 (second pic here). Ilford Films bought the negative from him and used the image for an advertising campaign.

    While researching British advertising, my grandma looks over my shoulder and says “Where did you find that?!” Then proceeds to fish out the original photo that her father took of her in 1940 (second pic here). Ilford Films bought the negative from him and used the image for an advertising campaign.

    by Educational-Hawk3066

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    1. Wild_Acanthaceae_224 on

      How very awesome, that’s really too cool. If you can get a current photo of Grandma so you can frame all of them together.

    3. Several-College-584 on

      That is really a fun coincidence.

      Seem photographic interest runs in your family.

      I bought a photography collection (200,000 35mm film slides) a few years ago from some professional nature photographers (well their heirs) and there are notes with the slides tracking which ones they had published and where, and which ones won which awards at which shows etc.

    4. Boomdiddy on

      Odd that an advertisement for film bought a photograph then made an illustration of it rather than using the photograph.

    9. wegqg on

      If not a hoax this would legit be of interest to a museum since this is such an iconic and well known ad.

      Awesome.

    11. FrankSonata on

      How adorable is that photo? She’s so cute! No wonder they decided to use the picture for their ad. Look at that chubby smile! What a beautiful moment to have captured on camera. Grandma was such an adorable baby!

    16. BabyLegsOShanahan on

      This is cool! My uncle worked at Xerox and they used a pic of my sister and me to test the color printing.

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