Recto Verso Index documents the ap­pro­pri­a­tion of a found col­lec­tion of 177 private photo­graphs (dating from around 1890 to 1940) through the repeated re­arrange­ment of images accord­ing to organiz­ing prin­ciples aris­ing from the material itself, such as for­mat, color, in­scrip­tion, date, and con­tent.