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| Anastasia Milne |
I believe
that if you combine the technology of the 20th century with that of this one
the opportunities for personal creativity explode particularly in photography.
The chaps of A J Phone Repair sold me a 27 inch wide Acer monitor. I had the pleasure to
dumping my 22-year-old Dell CRT Monitor at Kent Street Recycling.
I was
unaware what I could do with this monitor that as a bonus is properly calibrated. When I
go to my files with my 22-year-old Photoshop 8 and click on Browse, I can then
see all the photographs in the files. Because of this feature I have discovered
photographs I had forgotten I had taken. In the photograph here (used my phone)
of my Acer screen you can see the first of the almost 4000 plant scans I have
taken since I began in 2001.
The photograph
of Anastasia Milne here is one of two that I took with an extremely slow (25 ISO)
and sharp Kodak Technical Pan in 120 format. It is the choice of camera that I
used that makes this photograph even more unusual. I used my 1951 6x9
inch-long negative Gevabox Camera. Both negatives are severely underexposed but
my Epson scanner can do wonders.
I photographed Anastasia in the best room of the sleazy Marble Arch Hotel. She is the sister of a friend of mine called Carol. Anastasia did not say more that three or four words. She was an enigma.
But a a wonderful one. Her name reminds me of the Mexican writer Elena Garro who was about to write a short story about the fact that Anastasia survived the murder of her family in Russia and changed her name to Greta Garbo. Garro died before she was able to write it.
