By Darren Boyle The mystery man who took almost 500 selfies over a 30 year period has been identified as photobooth technician Franklyn Swantek. Mr Swantek was owner of Swantek Photo Service which described itself as 'Michigan's largest operators and distributors of Photomatic'. The 455 images form part of a exhibition at Rutgers University's Zimmerli Art Gallery in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Franklyn Swantek took the 455 images over a 30 year period between the 1930s to 1960s Mr Swantek, right, was identified by his nephew Tom Trelenberg who spotted a story about the mystery man on the internet Curators at the gallery were unaware of Mr Swantek's identity until his nephew Tom Trelenberg from Minden, Nevada logged on to the internet and saw a story about the mysterious man.
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Franklyn Swantek took the photographs between the 1930s to the 1960s
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The Michigan man was a distributor for Photomatic in the mid-west
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His nephew Tom Trelenberg identified his uncle after seeing the photographs
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The images are part of a major exhibition in Rutgers University, New Jersey
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