FYI: Today I obtained the new catalog of the firm "Promega" ( biological
research products, I work in a biochemical lab). On the front cover is a
color photograph, difficult to discribe, lots of purple/red colors, some
fingerprints, quite abstract, vaguely reminding me of my biology classes.
Same kind of images appeared throughout the catalog. There was a little
article about the photgrapher, Andre Farrella, which explained the images.
It appeared that this Farrella stored his colour slides and prints in a
wet basement, fungus started to grow on them an transformed the negs and
photographs and negs (these fungus/molds lived on o.a. on gelatine). Six
years of images down the drain, until he got interested and started to
print these "mold" negs, and liked them a lot, and so did the company
The photographer (going on after the incident):
"..filled a plasic bag with..neg...gathered mold, dust, scarpings..poured
water in the bag..even spit in it..and sealed the bag..buried some of the
negs.."
Cor Breukel
http://ruly70.medfac.leidenuniv.nl/~cor/cor.html
"The Infrared Gallery"
http://ruly70.medfac.leidenuniv.nl/~cor/ir-gallery.html
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