Anonymous Patron writes “Forbes.com: How To Preserve Photos For 500 Years“
Before he died in 2001, Jacques Lowe decided to store the negatives from his body of work in a bank vault. Among the archives of the notoriously meticulous photographer were some 40,000 images taken of President John F. Kennedy before and during his 1,000-day term in the White House.
The storage location Lowe picked was unfortunate: the underground bank vaults of JPMorgan Chase at 5 World Trade Center in New York. Six months to the day after he died, the negatives were gone, one of the cultural casualties of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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