[Leica] thousands of street photographers undeveloped negatives found after her death

[jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman)]

This is precisely why I fear the passing of film: can you imagine anyone
finding these as digital images in a storage locker?  Perhaps as a stack of
ROMs (good luck playing them thirty or forty years after being burned) or an
old computer's hard drive (and good luck booting it up thirty or forty years
in the future.)

I fear that discoveries like this will disappear with the rise of
all-digital imaging.  There's a lot to be said for something that's tangible
and visible to the unaided eye.

Jim Shulman
Wynnewood, PA


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From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Kyle
Cassidy
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 9:59 AM
To: lug at leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] thousands of street photographers undeveloped negatives
found after her death

this is a really amazing and wonderful website of images made from the 50's
- 70's by an unknown woman street photographer in chicago and new york --
perhaps one of you knew her -- wonderful photos (mostly medium format)
printed and scanned by a person who bought the contents of a locker at an
auction several years ago and slowly became fascinated by a woman he'd never
met:

http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/

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