There is old memory in snow

[sovay]

Old ice, old hauntings. Twenty-two hitherto unknown, unprocessed negatives from the Shackleton expedition (Ross Sea Party, 1914–17), discovered in an exploration hut. They are truly amazing. The damage especially makes them look like the photography of ghosts.

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[sovay]

In the ghostlike one, the damage has the look of a decoration of embossed roses, like a ghostly frame.

Yes! And the way he seems to fade in and out of the crates. That's actually my favorite of the pictures in terms of story, but I loved the three-dimensional texture of the one I linked, the blistering and the fernlike crackles of the silver layered into the emulsion like the lid of a shadow box, as if setting it beneath glass, or time.

(And I want to go and read your back pages, and I will do, later tonight.)

(They'll still be there! Enjoy!)