According to Visual China (000681), the Visual China "Meta Vision" platform will release the digital collection of the famous photography "Lovers at the Railway Station" from February 14. Each digital collection on sale includes 3 assets of black and white digital originals, hand-painted colored editions and digital animation editions, with a total of 999 copies on the chain, each priced at 520 yuan.
Black and white digital original
Hand-colored version
According to reports, the sale will use the digital collection to map the physical collection one by one, that is, the collector who purchases the digital collection can decide to keep the digital collection or exchange it for a limited edition physical collection before May 30, 2022. The physical collection will be printed using a museum-grade process, stamped with a "collector's stamp" and provided with a "black and white original" with an official collection certificate. The collector who finally chooses to exchange the physical collection will return the digital collection to the issuer and destroy it by the issuer and the platform party. Which of the digital collections or the physical collections is more valuable will be decided by all collectors, and the final result will be announced on the "Meta-Vision" digital collection related platform.
Renderings of physical collections
According to research, the photograph was taken on December 28, 1944. The two people in the work are gordon Christer, a soldier in love, and his lover, Mary Ray Bingham, who kiss reluctantly at the sun-drenched Detroit Central Train Station. Historical videographers have also found that the slightly larger box at Gordon Kister's feet is a portable record player. The research believes that although in the cruel war years, carrying a record machine larger than a suitcase to the battlefield fully reflects the romantic feelings of the lovers and the infinite love for life.
The work was published in The Boston American the next day and caused a strong reaction. After the end of World War II in 1945, the lovers finally became a family. Since then, this work has been widely published in books, CDs and posters, and has become a widely circulated classic video masterpiece. Today, the negatives of the work are in the Corbis image library, which was acquired by Visual China in 2016.
Founded in 1989 by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Corbis Gallery was once the world's second largest provider of high-end visual content copyright services. This gallery records almost all the major events in human history since the birth of imaging technology, and is a non-renewable, scarce and extremely precious memory of human history and culture. These precious legacies are now preserved in the Iron Mountain Warehouse northeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, adjacent to the Sony Image Warehouse and the Kodak Film Negatives Library. Iron Mountain Company Warehouse is a process-level commercial storage institution, located 50 meters underground, transformed from a limestone pit, constant temperature, constant humidity, can ensure the stable preservation of the collection for more than 1,000 years.
The negatives and picture descriptions of "Lovers at the Train Station" preserved in the warehouse of the "Iron Mountain" company
"The sale of the digital collection of "Lovers at the Railway Station" pays tribute to the classics and also sends sincere blessings to lovers in the world. In the future, visual China's 'meta-vision' platform will rely on Corbis, as well as the world's largest photographer community 500px.com and other resources, to release more classic visual art digital collections. The head of the "Meta-Vision" digital collection platform said.
This article originated from Easy Publishing