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Wie helpt dit stuk geschiedenis te bewaren

A3scannen frontpage mixup of images

Deze man heeft met zijn rescued film project een stuk geschiedenis van de jaren 50 van de vorige eeuw gevonden, hij wil het graag bewaren voor de toekomst en geschiedenis. Help mij hem helpen en doneer een kleine bijdragen voor zijn project

US army instruction film on photography

Here’s an interesting blast from the past: in 1965, the US Army released the 25-minute film above to teach the basics of photography (for military police purposes). Listen close to what the man is saying. There are some one liners that are still of use today at 2.30min “no camera does everything equally well..,” at […]

Josef Sudek: How a One-Armed Advertising Photographer Became the Legendary Poet of Prague

Josef-Sudek “There is no approach, no recipe. Each thing has to be done differently.” – Josef Sudek Photographer Josef Sudek is called “The Poet of Prague” because in tens of thousands of luminous images he captured the timeless soul of this city that is known as “The Jewel of Europe.” Sudek ceaselessly photographed the city’s […]

$2 Junk Shop Photo Turns Out to Be $5,000,000 Photo of Billy the Kid

Back in 2010, a man named Randy Guijarro in Fresno, California, found and purchased an old tintype photo for $2 at a junk shop. It turns out that photo is worth up to $5 millionbecause it’s only the second authenticated picture that shows the famous outlaw Billy the Kid. Kagin’s, the Western American experts that […]