Columbus, Ohio 1972
In my last post, And Now, For Something Completely Different, I shared a photograph of the Flatiron Building in New York City, by my friend Peter Seiger, a skilled architectural photographer. The photo is from a scanned 35mm negative.
It got me thinking about a project I’m working on, organizing my 60 years of photography into a searchable archive. I’ll need to live to 100 to finish it. The process involves looking at every roll of film, every batch of slides, and the piles of prints I’ve made over the decades. I evaluate what is worth keeping and what can be tossed. What I keep I then transfer from old negative sheets, boxes, envelopes, into archival storage materials. I finish by entering data on each roll of film, box of slides, individual prints, and digital files into a database I designed. The goal is to have something to hand off to someone who might see an historical value in what I’ve done. Otherwise, it’ll end up in a landfill or a glorious pyre.
Peter’s photo motivated me to apply the techniques he’s been using to a photo I recently rediscovered; 1936 Dodge, Columbus, Ohio, 1972. It’s from a scanned 35mm, b/w negative also. The result is above.
There’s always room for beauty and finding new ways to create it.