Military equipment abandoned by the Polish army near Akkerman in Moldova towards the end of the Great War 1914-1918.

The city of Akkerman was renamed Cetate-Alba when it was acquired by Romania in 1918, then Belgorod-Dnestrovsky by Soviet Russia in 1940 and finally Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyï since 1991 by Ukraine.

M Jpeg / 3315 × 2323 / 3.3 Mo
XXL Tiff / 7955 × 5574 / 42 Mo

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Description

In this collection of photographs taken by French soldiers on the eastern front during World War I – over a hundred years ago – high resolution scans have revealed in stunning detail, not only the film’s grain structure, but also a rich patina of scratches, fingerprints and chemical alterations. On certain occasions, the intimate history of the negative itself and the successive layers of the passage of time confer to the work a unique level of abstract artistic beauty.