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The Art of Photography => Street Showcase => Topic started by: RSL on June 20, 2018, 10:12:34 am

Title: Interior, Pagye Temple, 1954
Post by: RSL on June 20, 2018, 10:12:34 am

Pagyesa, or Pagye Temple, is a Buddhist temple in Palgongsan mountain park, near Daegu, South Korea. The temple was first built in 804 by a priest named Simji, and was restored and expanded in the 17th century.

I made several shots here in 1954. This one is street. I didn't know it at the time.

Title: Re: Interior, Pagye Temple, 1954
Post by: Rayyan on June 20, 2018, 12:43:17 pm

Wonderful Russ.
Remember which film you used?

Title: Re: Interior, Pagye Temple, 1954
Post by: RSL on June 22, 2018, 03:56:15 pm

Must have been Kodachrome. I shot a lot of Ektachrome because I could process it locally, but the Ektachromes have faded to nothing. Like this one.

Title: Re: Interior, Pagye Temple, 1954
Post by: degrub on June 22, 2018, 10:26:56 pm

Russ,

Are those kimchi jars in the temple shot ?

Frank

Title: Re: Interior, Pagye Temple, 1954
Post by: RSL on June 23, 2018, 09:59:25 am

Hi Frank, I suspect so, but I couldn't very well look inside them, and I don't speak Korean, so I can't be sure. Sometimes the smell tips you off. Not this time as I recall. Of course, that was 64 years ago.

Title: Re: Interior, Pagye Temple, 1954
Post by: BobDavid on June 24, 2018, 02:27:04 pm

Quote from: RSL on June 20, 2018, 10:12:34 am

Pagyesa, or Pagye Temple, is a Buddhist temple in Palgongsan mountain park, near Daegu, South Korea. The temple was first built in 804 by a priest named Simji, and was restored and expanded in the 17th century.

I made several shots here in 1954. This one is street. I didn't know it at the time.

I wonder if it looks the same as it did in 1954.