Resurrecting 60,000 photos of rock history

[Alex Benjamin]

The photographer with 60,000 undeveloped images of rock history ‘waiting to come back to life'

Charles Daniels took intimate pictures of his friends the Rolling Stones, Hendrix and others – but few have seen the light of day until now.

 

[pentaxuser]

That is one massive undertaking. Even if only one roll in two has only one outstanding frame that renders it at least relatively unique then it will be quite a find and record for the annals of that period

pentaxuser

 

[CMoore]

Holy Cow....he worked at The Tea Party.................he saw PETER GREEN in his and their BEST............not to mention DOZENS of other greats..!!!
I am envious as Hell

 

[Sirius Glass]

Wait! I thought this was about Ansel Adams!​

 

[pentaxuser]

Sirius this guy took more rock pics than AA could capture in the whole of Yosemite

pentaxuser

 

[ic-racer]

Exposed and unprocessed tri-x from the 1960s? I processed some HP5 from the 1980s and base was pretty dense.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Sirius this guy took more rock pics than AA could capture in the whole of Yosemite

pentaxuser

Did he photograph rock cocaine too?

 

[Alex Benjamin]

Wait! I thought this was about Ansel Adams! ​

 

[Alex Benjamin]

Exposed and unprocessed tri-x from the 1960s? I processed some HP5 from the 1980s and base was pretty dense.

Film Rescue International, the company hired for this, describes their process a bit on their website: https://www.filmrescue.com/old-still-film-gallery/

 

[ic-racer]

No “process only” ??

They are going to charge the poor African American gentleman for 60,000 prints?

Im not sure I fully understand what is going on or if the photographer is being taken advantage of.

 

[Alex Benjamin]

No “process only” ??

They are going to charge the poor African American gentleman for 60,000 prints?

Im not sure I fully understand what is going on or if the photographer is being taken advantage of.

Nobody's being taken advantage of. It's in the article: "Realizing the scope of the project, however, a friend set up a GoFundMe campaign with a goal of $40,000. It has raised more than $56,000, allowing Daniels to hire Film Rescue International, which specializes in such projects."

It's up to 57,000$. You can still make a donation, if you wish.

 

[Brendan Quirk]

In 2013 I developed some rolls of Tri-X exposed in 1999 (room temp storage). I did give maybe 20% extra time. The results were far from ideal, but printable if you could accept the odd nature of the prints. The negatives were very flat, somewhat faint, and very grainy. Fortunately, the photos were from a Civil War reenactment, so the prints just looked "period". I am sure that the pros can do a better job, but I would not expect "fine art" results.

 

[gone]

GoFundMe $$$'s or not, I have serious doubts that there will be much there after all this time. Cosmic rays and such, it's long odds, put it like that.

 

[reddesert]

It just depends. I've developed T-max 400 that I exposed about 20 years before that was fine. I've also developed Tri-X perhaps less old than that that had poor results most likely because it was underexposed in the first place.

It is clear in the description of the Film Rescue process that they are likely to develop it as B&W and then scan /post-process the images that are most promising.