jeudi 7 octobre 2010

Vivian Maier / her discovered work

"Vivian Maier - Her Discovered Work

(...) Vivian Maier, a street photographer from the 1950s - 1990s. Vivian's work was discovered at an auction here in Chicago where she resided most of her life. Her discovered work includes about 100,000 mostly medium format negatives and a ton of undeveloped rolls of film. Born February 1, 1926 and deceased on Tuesday, April 21, 2009. (...)

(...) Out of the roughly 100,000 negatives I have in the collection, about 20-30,000 negatives were still in rolls, undeveloped from the 1960's-1970's. I have been successfully developing these rolls. I still have about 600 rolls yet to develop. I must say, it's very exciting for me. Most of her negatives that were developed in sleeves have the date and location penciled in French (she had poor penmanship). (...)"


Source: Blog de John Maloof

(...) "@Pachinko: The first batch of rolls came out a bit thin but mainly usable. It was only after developing about 100 rolls that I realized I should be pushing these. Since then, they have been fine. She used Kodak Tri-X 120 film. Every roll was hand labeled in French. (...)"

Source: Flickr

Et une photo du matériel trouvé

Aucun commentaire:

Enregistrer un commentaire

Qui êtes-vous ?

Ma photo
Ex journaliste, informaticien, Ecolo, photographe, belge, bedonnant, grisonnant, polyglotte, passant quotidiennement trop heures derrière mon volant. Vous en voulez encore? Parlons plutôt photographie!