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China’s rapid capitalist transition documented in the found images of the Beijing Silvermine – ABC News
A French photography collector stumbled upon a treasure trove of discarded film documenting one of the world’s biggest cultural and economic shifts — the rise of…
In 2009, Thomas Sauvin stumbled upon discarded film negatives he could purchase by the kilogram.
The French national was alerted to them by a man in Beijing, who was collecting trash that could be melted down to extract silver nitrate a substance that could be sold onto chemists and laboratories.
“He developed a network of people who collected negative films, X-rays, CDs, and anything else that contained silver nitrate,” Sauvin told the ABC.
“Once he gathered everything, he put them in a pool…
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