THE LINES OF THEIR HANDS

2019

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Stainless still hangers, pigment prints on metallic paper

Various sizes

Using the traditional stainless steel developing hangers designed by Kodak for submerging film into developing tanks, this series focuses on various photographic details from archive images found online, showing men and women at work in Kodak factories : the hands and repeated gestures of workers on the assembly line form another line of images.

Thus, the series pays tribute to the manual involved in the process of developing sheet films and celebrates all the anonymous workers who have contributed to make photography popular at the beginning of the 20th century thanks to their meticulous work.