“Musée de l’Homme museum and Eiffel Tower, Paris, France, early 1960s by Alan Harries”
This image of Paris was licensed recently for use by Radio France. As I have mentioned before it is extremely satisfying to bring these old images to a new audience.
I’ve updated my gallery of ‘sold’ archive images which now has over 230 images. The most recently licensed ones are at the beginning.
There are now over 6,600 of the ‘archive’ images on Geography Photos
I was pleased to be contacted earlier in the summer by a niece of naval officer Mervyn Scott-Lindsley.
“I own a collection of slides (and a few photos) taken by my Uncle from 1930s to 1980s, mainly 1950s-60s. He was a naval officer, joining in WWII (PoW in Hong Kong, his diary from that time is in the National Museum of the Royal Navy), retiring in 1968, he died in 1987. This is the list of subjects: Leningrad 1947/8 photos, Malta 1956, Tripoli 1956, Portsmouth 1956, Donegal Ireland 1960s, Devon and Cornwall 1958-62, Wales and Dorset 1970s-80s, Singapore and Malaya (Johore Bahru) 1963-5, Hong Kong 1964 and 1965. I am trying to find someone who would like to have these.”
I very much hope that this is the way the archive collection of images on Geography Photos develops – with contributions made by the photographer’s family. In return they know that there is a place on the Internet dedicated to their family member’s photographs and that these images are made available to the general public to view and also to publishers.
I have made a start on this archive with 210 images from Hong Kong, Macua, Singapore, Malaysia.
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These posts encourage me to try slide scanning…
I’ve been looking for dedicated units to scan photo slides myself. Not sure about Micro 4 Thirds as that’s my main system, so I figured going for one of those film and slide scanners that you just slot them in the holders and you’re all set on the scanning side. The price of a new macro lens and the holder and possibly the diffused lightbox costs more than getting the slide scanner unit it seems.