Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Timeless exposure: 100-year-old colour photos discovered in attic

By David Usborne in New York

Published: 23 May 2007

Just how much cash they might have raised no one can say, but for students of photography the three glass-plate images that Charlotte Albright found in her attic in Buffalo, New York state, last summer are little short of priceless. Happily, the pictures are not bound for an auction house but rather the venerable George Eastman House museum in Rochester, which will display them this autumn. They are remarkable in many ways, not least because they are by Edward Steichen and - though a century old - are in colour. continue...


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