[pure-silver] Slightly OT: Robert Capa, was: RE: Re: Hardening fixer for film
- From: <C.Breukel@xxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:10:41 +0200
> Modern films have emulsions which are much harder than
> those of perhaps 50 years ago.
..on this subject : Last Friday I visited a realy nice exhibition
featuring Robert Capa (as well as Eva Besnyo, a hungarian -dutch
photographer who also made quite interesting work) in het Joods
Historisch museum, Amsterdam (http://www.jhm.nl/english.aspx no
photographs though).
Anyway, shown were the famous photographs of the D-day landing in
Normandy, 1944. Robert Capa was with the first groups of soldiers, het
made a bout 132 photographs, but only 11 survived. This was because an
over-ethousiastic lab technician in London turned up the heat of the
drying cabinet far too high.
The gelatine literly melted from the support, they showed some negatives
which were the depressing proof. But somehow the surviving negatives had
gained strength from the bad treatment..
Best,
Cor
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