tristesse (engraved)
issue two....october 2010
the first photographic slide issue
contents **** page 3-17: found slides * page 18-23: submitted anonymously * page 24-27: eight colour slides by Kihei Tamamura * page 28-39: slides by T. Enami * page 40-57: from Ewan Gordon’s collection * page 58-61: Isabella Laird Andronos - ‘moon men’ *
found slides
a small unknown
recall the first time picking up a slide, holding it up to the light and viewing in vivid colour the world within it’s paper or plastic borders . - JrF
Buffalo County of house by William Nutter 1890
I had, as a child, a toy slide projector. I forget the slides it came with....I think goofy might have featured. - JrF
the following 5 slides were submitted anonymously
eight colour slides by Kihei Tamamura (dob. unknown - d. 1951)
Takinogawa,Oji
Ueno Toshogu Shrine
Ueno park # 7
wisteria trellis at Kameido Shrine
Hozu river
Kegon falls
Nikko Kanaya hotel
woman playing the shamisen
slides by T. Enami (b. 1859 d. 1929)
morning colours in japan
geisha in a japanese garden
geisha greeting
mount fuji, tree, man & snow
a geisha’s repose
pilgrim on a forest road # 1
pilgrim on a forest road # 2
geisha in the park
the umbrella farm
mount fuji
geisha reading
from Ewan Gordon’s collection
Moon Men by Isabella Laird Andronos Saturated in magenta tones my collection of found photographic slides depicts iconic, ubiquitous images of the moon landing from 1969. An image of Buz Aldrin walking on the moon has become degraded, possibly through poor storage. This is very likely, considering the slide was found in a box on the side of the road. Framed in its plastic 35mm carrier, the image has faded out in the centre; the nitrate based medium cracked and chipped away. There is a sense of mystery associated with this perishing image. In the image, the figure of an astronaut can still be made out, but nature has intervened. The original context of the image was likely to have been as part of a school or learning institute, the image seen as a representation of a historical event; a proof, a document. With computers used to store and view images, this decay is something that will be seen less and less. The same image of Buz appears in Google images, untarnished, colour balanced, and complete. My work pursues these decomposing images as things to be looked at and valued, not to be discarded.
Images: Isabella Laird Andronos, Moon (one), collected 2007, Annandale, Australia Isabella Laird Andronos, Moon (two), collected 2007, Annandale, Australia Isabella Laird Andronos, Moon (three), collected 2007, Annandale, Australia Š All images are copyright of Isabella Laird Andronos, 2010 http://www.isabellalairdandronos.com
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