Digitizing negatives: Costica Acsinte, WWI army photographer
Photo enthusiast Cezar Popescu is digitizing the work of Romanian photographer Costica Acsinte, who was an army photographer during the First World War and later had a small studio in the southern Romanian city of Slobozia before his death in 1984.
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- Photo enthusiast Cezar Popescu looks at a glass plate negative from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” before scanning at Ialomita county museum in Slobozia February 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- Marioara Paslaru holds a picture of her taken by Costica Acsinte about 50 years ago in Slobozia, February 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- Photo enthusiast Cezar Popescu looks at negatives from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” at Ialomita county museum in Slobozia February 18, 2014.(REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- Photo enthusiast Cezar Popescu looks at a glass plate negative from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” before scanning at Ialomita county museum in Slobozia February 21, 2014.(REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- Photo enthusiast Cezar Popescu looks at a negative from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” at Ialomita county museum in Slobozia February 18, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- Images scanned from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” are pictured on a monitor in Slobozia February 18, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- Negatives from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” are seen at Ialomita county museum in Slobozia February 18, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- Negatives from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” are seen at Ialomita county museum in Slobozia February 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- A museographer holds a glass plate negative from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” at Ialomita county museum in Slobozia February 18, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- A museographer holds glass plate negatives from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” at Ialomita county museum in Slobozia February 18, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- Photo enthusiast Cezar Popescu looks at an image of the Sfintii Voievozi monastery taken from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” in Slobozia February 21, 2014. Popescu is digitising the work of Romanian photographer Costica Acsinte, who was an army photographer during the First World War and later had a small studio in the southern Romanian city of Slobozia before his death in 1984. Acsinte’s photographs, shot on glass plates, celluloid plates and film, document more than half a century of life in Romania. However, they were kept in poor conditions and had already deteriorated before many of them came into the possession of the Ialomita County Museum, where they are now. Popescu is working as a volunteer to help preserve the images by scanning them and making them publicly available online. Picture taken February 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- Photo enthusiast Cezar Popescu cleans a negative from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” before scanning at Ialomita county museum in Slobozia February 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- Photo enthusiast Cezar Popescu cleans the scanner before digitalizing negatives from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” in Slobozia February 18, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- Photo enthusiast Cezar Popescu looks at a glass plate negative from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” before scanning at Ialomita county museum in Slobozia February 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- A museographer holds a glass plate negative from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” at Ialomita county museum in Slobozia February 18, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- Photo enthusiast Cezar Popescu cleans a glass plate negative from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” before scanning at Ialomita county museum in Slobozia February 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- Photo enthusiast Cezar Popescu scans a negative from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” at Ialomita county museum in Slobozia February 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- Photo enthusiast Cezar Popescu cleans a glass plate negative from “Costica Acsinte” picture archive before scanning at Ialomita county museum in Slobozia February 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- Images from the “Costica Acsinte picture archive” are scanned at Ialomita county museum in Slobozia February 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
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- Images scanned from “Costica Acsinte” picture archive are pictured on a monitor in Slobozia February 18, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
Acsinte’s photographs, shot on glass plates, celluloid plates and film, document more than half a century of life in Romania. However, they were kept in poor conditions and had already deteriorated before many of them came into the possession of the Ialomita County Museum, where they are now. Popescu is working as a volunteer to help preserve the images by scanning them and making them publicly available online.
Photos by Reuters photographer Bogdan Cristel.
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