But you're never gonna find it When your knees got so weak But it's right here in case you need it Like when you were young And everybody used to call you lucky
Okay so here’s the lowdown. I found 4 sets of medium format negatives while I was thrift shop hunting a few weeks ago. They were sitting in a box of old vintage photographs in these plastic sleeves, and from what I could tell, they had been taken sometime in the 50’s. So obviously I brought them home, and today finally had them scanned in, and holy wow they are beautiful!!
NOW this is where I need the Internet’s help. I would absolutely love to find the women in these photographs/the photographer who took them. The only info I have is that the negatives were found in a thrift store on Hull St in Richmond, VA. They are medium format, and judging by the style of dress, made in 1940-1950. The owner of the thrift store had no idea where they came from. I’m posting the best/clearest scans of the images, so if y'all could reblog the shit out of this, I’m hoping we can find the owners of these amazing images.
The second set includes two strips of transparencies, one with 4 frames and the other with 3 frames. They also only have the numbers “431 6082” marked on the edges, which are more than likely to do with the emulsion batch. The images seem to have been taken AFTER the first set, because they are darker, and the sun is no longer visible on the horizon. One strip is of the woman in the blue dress sitting on the rocks and gazing in profile out to the sea, and the other looks like the silhouette of the lady in red, in which the photographer chose to focus on her reflection in a pool of water in the foreground, with herself out of focus behind it. Just to clarify-the scans that I posted online are the clearest of the batch. I straightened a couple of the frames, which cropped them slightly, but they are all square frames, all of the same size. Some of the images I didn’t post do have some color shifts, slight fogging, and some markings. When I originally posted these images, the goal was to find the women based on what they looked like, and not based on the film type. I do have folks who are taking a look at uncorrected scans and pictures of the transparencies to see if that will give us any clues. The film is actually believed to be Rexo 431 (film type), series 6082 (slides/transparencies) based on the marking numbers on the edges of the transparencies.
