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  • Found Film: Korea, 1946, roll 4 (Homecoming)

    This is the fourth and final installment in a series of posts about four rolls of film that were found among items acquired in an estate sale in rural Washington state. To recap what I think I can safely assume from the content in these photos, they appear to have been taken by a U.S.

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  • Day at the Beach

    Marina Beach, Chennai, India

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  • Found Film: Korea, 1946 – Part 3

    This is the third installment (in what will eventually be 4) in a series of posts about a fascinating project I have been working on.  Rather than the usual “found film” which I find undeveloped, this is a set of four rolls of already-developed photographs I have scanned and gradually restored over the past weeks.

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  • Indian Portraits from the 1950s and 1960s

    Between Chennai and Pondicherry is an area with an especially high proliferation of “junk stores.  I suppose the owners would prefer we’d call them antique shops – but there actually aren’t that many actual antiques, just lots of oddities and strange treasures, many of which are made to look old. In the back of one

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  • Found Film: Korea, 1946 – part 2

    Last week I posted about the first of four rolls of already-developed film I had come across via a seller on eBay, and have been scanning and restoring one by one.  This is the second roll, which provides a whole new set of clues as to the photographer and their living conditions in Korea, just

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