Amazing negatives bought at auction

[auntiem]

http://www.webburgr.com/vivian_maier/

Man buys a trunk full of unexposed* ETA undeveloped negatives and finds an amazing collection of photos from the 50's and 60's.

[dalesys]

... trunk full of unexposed negatives...

Unexposed negatives would only have ghost pictures.

Undeveloped, OK... (4 buddies with darkrooms in the 60s, plus my dad)

[Elspeth]

wow! that is awesome. We actually have a close to a 1000 negatives from the 1910s to the 1950s (we think) from my Mom's side of the family. I am getting a new scanner after christmas to start scanning them. I can't wait too start

[wolfie]

Glad the undeveloped film in the trunk didn't turn out to be Kodachrome.

[Slayer]

They're lovely pictures. I remember seeing them when the story first exploded.

[AdamAnt316]

Glad the undeveloped film in the trunk didn't turn out to be Kodachrome.

There are ways to develop old Kodachrome film as black & white. Mostly done in emergency situations, as mentioned here, and not too cheap or simple. A damn shame that Kodak stopped making that film, and that no one develops it in color anymore.