{"id":17295,"date":"2016-11-16T05:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17295"},"modified":"2016-11-14T19:38:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T00:38:37","slug":"brians-lost-archive-from-the-depths-twice-rescued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/brians-lost-archive-from-the-depths-twice-rescued\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian’s Lost Archive: From the Depths\u2014Twice Rescued."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I exposed this black & white negative in the New York City Subway about 1978.<\/p>\n

My understanding of photographic technique was minimal, as I was only eleven or so at the time and I had just begun to learn how the process worked.<\/p>\n

In this case, not only did I underexpose the film, but when I processed it my developer was either nearing exhaustion and\/or was heavily oxidized owing to poor storage.<\/p>\n

Underexposure and underdevelopment is just about the worse of conditions with film.<\/p>\n

This image is from one of about 100 rolls of my early efforts that had been stored in box for decades\u2014unprinted, but not forgotten.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, sometime during my travels decades ago, this box of old negs was stored away.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d\u00a0been looking for my lost early negatives for along time, and often frustrated by my inability to find them.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, I dreampt where to look for the missing box, and so upon my return from Dublin last week, I was finally able to locate\u00a0them.<\/p>\n

A hundred or so rolls!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll begin\u00a0with this one because it has special significance for me; the man at the right is my grandfather. He had brought my brother and me to the Natural History Museum at 81st<\/sup> street. I made a sequence of images of the subway train arriving to bring us back to the Bronx.<\/p>\n

Since the original negative was impossibly thin, I wasn\u2019t capable of making a print. However, I know now how to rescue difficult images:<\/p>\n