FilmAnalysis · 照片背后的故事

拍卖行里的一箱底片

从照片出发,读一段摄影史。故事和照片之间只是阅读上的联想,不代表照片的作者、相机或实际用的胶卷。

2009 · 摄影师

芝加哥的约翰·马卢夫为一本社区历史书去拍卖行找老照片,花了大约四百美元买下一箱底片,拍的是 1960 年代的芝加哥。

他从一个胶卷袋上找到拍摄者的名字,又顺着 2009 年报上的一则讣告,找到了她做过工的人家。她叫薇薇安·迈尔,以做保姆和管家为业,生前几乎没给人看过这些照片。

不妨试试

用一卷胶卷或一天的时间,只拍你每天经过的那几条街。

「不妨试试」是编辑设计的练习,不是史实。

薇薇安·迈尔

资料出处

接着读

柔焦也可以是选择

蕨叶留下自己的轮廓

纪实,也可以很私人

故事卡与徽章分开收藏。为照片评分仍按原有规则收集徽章。

FilmAnalysis · Stories behind the frame

A box of negatives at auction

Read a little photographic history. These connections suggest ways to look; they say nothing about authorship, cameras or the physical film stock.

2009 · Photographer

Looking for old photographs for a Chicago neighbourhood history book, John Maloof paid about four hundred dollars at an auction house for a box of negatives of 1960s Chicago.

From a name on a film envelope he traced a 2009 obituary in the Chicago papers, and through it the families she had worked for. She was Vivian Maier, a nanny and housekeeper who had shown her pictures to almost no one.

Try this

Spend one roll or one day photographing only the streets you pass every day.

"Try this" is an exercise written by the editors, not history.

Vivian Maier

Sources

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