An interesting branch of vernacular photography is the area of pop-photographica. This term, coined by Daile Kaplan, the leading expert in the field, describes pop-photographica as functional or decorative objects to which photographs have been applied or incorporated. The category runs the gamut from photographic mouse pads to 19th-century walking sticks embellished with miniature daguerreotype portraits. As in the non-pop-phologra-phica vernacular market, many of the objects were created as personal mementos. As generations passed, the objects were relegated to the attic and eventually to the rubbish as the meaning was lost and the people in the images became unidentifiable. Surviving objects in good condition are coming to attention as the source for master photographic prints dries up.
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