The Green Cabinet
Die Bildagentur Corbis Images hat den Tumblr The Green Cabinet gestartet. Dieser zeigt vergessene Kuriositäten aus ihrem Bettmann Archiv, über das wir mit Ken Johnston, Direktor des historischen Archivs, im Slanted Magazin #20 ausführlich gesprochen haben.
Aus dem Pressetext: The Green Cabinet presents news service images culled from the United Press International picture archive, now a part of the Bettmann Archive at Corbis. It is about the deep archive material - the overlooked, under-known and also-ran images, forgotten subjects and occasional oddities. It’s not an outpost for showing off the well-known, famous images from Corbis.
The contents of the archive, the millions of glass and plastic negatives, the paper prints and captions, the hundreds of cabinets, are an altogether wondrous piece of the pre-digital world - and 100% analog. The film negatives of the UPI archive are stored in their original antique cabinets at the Corbis Film Preservation facility. Many of these cabinets date back to the 1930s and about a hundred or so are for some mysterious reason painted a dark green. This is where our Tumblr name came from.
The Green Cabinet celebrates these images and their new lease on life.
