Photo ofnineteenth century he was born in Twentieth century which look like they were taken yesterday. It seems impossible but it is. Today, Sunday 16 June, from 9am to 7pmin the Carlo Levi room (via Gramsci) by Desio, it will be the last day to admire them. This is the photographic exhibition Images from times gone by of the photographer Claudio Bovoedited by Desian photographic club. The ancient shots were digitized by Bovo with his particular invention which allowed him to transform the negative on a glass plate into digital images. It wasn’t easy to arrive at this creation.
Desio, nineteenth-century photos that seem to have been taken yesterday: a unique technique has been invented to restore them
«Since I didn’t want to go to a real darkroom, I invented this equipment – explains Bovo – I created a small darkroom with wooden frames to insert the negatives. I photographed them with a macro lens. I placed a panel that illuminated the image from behind but with the first photos they were grainy, you could see the pixels – there came the stroke of genius – I inserted an opal panel that diffused the light evenly. The graininess disappeared and I was then able to bring the images back to digital.”
Desio, nineteenth-century photos that seem to have been taken yesterday: 55 shots that tell the daily life of an ancient spinning mill
There are 55 shots digitized by Bovo. It took him almost a year to get them. For the vast majority they tell stories the life of a spinning mill owner: 40 years of him and his family. They capture moments of life with their children, who can be seen growing up shot after shot, and in the spinning mill with the women who chose the silkworms. There are also shots that depict the peasant world of the past. And others that show old landscapes for example of Lake Maggiore. Claudio Bovo is a historic member of the photographic club. He’s a great collector of camerashe will take part of them to the exhibition, and of old negatives that he finds in the markets to give them a second life.
