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Introduction to the Film Plates
There are three thousand individual film plates in this estimable collection of Great Lakes film photographs and supporting assets. The film plates are organized into three groups: Diapositive (Color Reversal) Films, Black and White, and Color Negative Films.
About the Diapositive Film Plates
There are three thousand individual film plates in The Great Lakes Film Collection; of these plates, two thousand five hundred pieces were made upon diapositive film. The diapositive film plates present a comprehensive artistic survey of historical Great Lakes Americana and the vast natural landscapes of the bi-national freshwater basin.
The plates you see below form a brief preview of the photographic works included in The Great Lakes Film Collection.
Title: Beach of the Unknown | Diapositive Film Plate No. 7 | File No. 0498
Title: Living Dune | Diapositive Film Plate No. 14 | File No. 0055
Title: Rising | Diapositive Film Plate No. 22 | File No. 1697
Title: Water Comes, Water Goes | Diapositive Film Plate No. 5 | File No. 2828
Title: Storm at the Glen | Diapositive Film Plate No. 5 | File No. 2292
Title: Bluffs of Door County | Diapositive Film Plate No. 25 | File No. 2318
Title: Morning at Grand Haven | Diapositive Film Plate No. 35 | File No. 2404
Title: Lingering Muskegon | Diapositive Film Plate No. 29 | File No. 2409
Title: Split Rock Stone Leaf | Diapositive Film Plate No. 18 | File No. 145
Title: The Demise | Diapositive Film Plate No. 9 | File No. 247
Title: In Hiding | Diapositive Film Plate No. 5 | File No. 0591
Title: Tired Out | Diapositive Film Plate No. 10 | File No. 273
Title: Newport Woods | Diapositive Film Plate No. 7 | File No. 143
Title: Motif | Diapositive Film Plate No. 7 | File No. 2286
Title: Savage Morning | Diapositive Film Plate No. 7 | File No. 445
Title: Sunset at Nordhouse Dunes | Diapositive Film Plate No. 5 | File No. 586
Title: Inside a Good Hart | Diapositive Film Plate No. 1 | File No. 2001
Title: 1,000 Island Summers | Diapositive Film Plate No. 27 | File No. 2009
Title: Summer Read | Diapositive Film Plate No. 3 | File No. 2021
Title: Ending Day | Diapositive Film Plate No. 18 | File No. 1405
Title: Casting Over Maple | Diapositive Film Plate No. 1 | File No. 1848
Title: An Au Sable Keeper | Diapositive Film Plate No. 23 | File No. 2101
Title: Window on Thunder Bay | Diapositive Film Plate No. 12 | File No. 164
Title: Granite Island Sunrise | Diapositive Film Plate No. 9 | File No. 33
About the Black and White Negative Film Plates
There are one hundred and seventy-four black and white negative film plates in The Great Lakes Film Collection, a previously unreleased body of work, each one is the study of coastal interactions between wind, water, and land, the bearings of visual theater between each Great Lake and its surrounding landscape.
Title: Support Systems | B+W Negative Film Plate No. 16 | File No. 2565
Title: One Stone | B+W Negative Film Plate No. 18 | File No. 2452
Title: Ohio Erie | B+W Negative Film Plate No. 16 | File No. 2314
Title: Bodin's | B+W Negative Film Plate No. 4 | File No. 2087
Title: Coming Home | B+W Negative Film Plate No. 9 | File No. 2118
Title: In the Huron so Vast | B+W Negative Film Plate No. 18 | File No. 2681
Title: Alterations | B+W Negative Film Plate No. 4 | File No. 2115
Title: Remain | B+W Negative Film Plate No. 7 | File No. 2138
Title: Twist of Fate | B+W Negative Film Plate No. 7 | File No. 1847
Title: Herring Wing | B+W Negative Film Plate No. 8 | File No. 1855
Title: Block | B+W Negative Film Plate No. 11 | File No. 1957
Title: Until We Meet Again | B+W Negative Film Plate No. 14 | File No. 2591
About the Color Negative Film Plates
There are three hundred and twenty-six color negative film plates within The Great Lakes Film Collection. This work, never released to the public, probes the tension between natural and manmade landscapes of the Great Lakes.
These particular photographs synthesize Rust Belt and Fresh Coast, revealing a harmony of surrender in the ordinary, while presenting the discord of progress in the complicated.
Title: Roadside Religion | Color Negative Film Plate No. 10 | File No. 370
Title: Kitchen Landscapes | Color Negative Film Plate No. 8 | File No. 412
Title: Doorway to Bessemer | Color Negative Film Plate No. 5 | File No. 40
Title: The Last Smoke | Color Negative Film Plate No. 7 | File No. 1373
Title: Time as Color | Color Negative Film Plate No. 10 | File No. 398
Title: Greenhouse | Color Negative Film Plate No. 1 | File No. 47
Title: Welcome, Stay Back | Color Negative Film Plate No. 4 | File No. 224
Title: Mine Town | Color Negative Film Plate No. 3 | File No. 1431
Title: Opinions | Color Negative Film Plate No. 2 | File No. 327
Title: Herring Observations | Color Negative Film Plate No. 11 | File No. 225
Title: Tree Lot | Color Negative Film Plate No. 10 | File No. 605
Title: Bend | Color Negative Film Plate No. 7 | File No. 665
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“Ed’s decision to shoot on film is not a matter of an unwillingness to evolve with technology. He views the permanence of film, the physical existence of the image, and its ability to endure as itself making a statement about the Great Lakes and the importance of taking a long-term view of their stewardship.”
— Jeff Smith, Former Executive Editor - Traverse Magazine
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