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Category: Black and White (page 16 of 20)

Found Photography: Australian Country Wedding

I found this full role of developed film with a paper lining wrapped around a cardboard box which in turn had a cardboard band around it and the film to hold everything in place.

There’s no marks on the box itself- the film stock was Kodak Tri-X Safety Film, which I believe places them sometime after 1954 as this was the year Tri-X was introduced the market. The size of the frames seem a little large to me as I was unable to fit 6 across in my scanning rack- I’m not sure if this alludes to the camera used.

The roll contains mostly shots of a wedding and various families posed near country side houses. Most of the framing centers around the woman in the first photo which makes me think this was probably a relative of hers.

Found Photography: Asia in Black and White: Part II

I cut the remaining two frames out of the negative strip and placed in the thickest book I could fine (a yet to be read copy of “The Pale King”) for a day to see if I could manage to flatten out the bends with no real effect.

 

But, I was able to fit them into a scanning holder flat enough to get an alright scan- these shots are arnt as interesting in composition as the previous two but might offer a little in terms of insight into context.

It turns out that these are likely Hmong people– possibly from Lao, Yunnan or Vietnam. I’m hoping that by posting these last few frames some more clues will emerge that might confirm their location and if they were wartime photos of people on the move.

Special thanks to Dr. Neil Maclean, Linda Connor, Holly High and the rest of the Sydney University Department of Anthropology for their help in identifying the people, place and time.

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