Costică Acsinte Archive project as seen by media

Mirela Oprea published her impressions about Costică Acsinte project on republica.ro. Mulțumim frumos, Mirela!

Nora Pavel shared her thoughts about Acsinte’s first photo-album by writing a article („Costică Acsinte al nostru, al tuturor“) on Pistolul cu buline website. Mulțumesc mult, Nora!

Alina Pavelescu kindly wrote the preface for the first Acsinte photo-album and Simona Preda interviewed her („Fotografii de poveste“) about the Costică Acsinte Archive and published the piece on Literatura de azi website. Mulțumesc mult tuturor!

Mary — „a mum, web designer and vintage-addict“ — wrote a nice article („Moving 1940s Photo Portraits by Costică Acsinte“) about my project. Thank you very much, Mary!

Adrian Posteuca made a very nice and detailed documentary about Acsinte („Costică Acsinte, fotograful istoriei“) for his Bonton show aired on Digi24. Mulțumesc, Adrian!

Stephen Marr wrote an article („Artist uses early 20th century portraits to create surreal modern-day makeovers“) for the Metro website. Thank you, Stephen!

Cooperativa Tradițională advertised („Colecție de fotografii vechi, semnată de Costică Acsinte@Muzeul Țăranului“) Costică Acsinte exhibition organized by Bucharest Photo Week. Vă mulțumesc!

Anca-Maria Pănoiu published an abridged version („Rămășițe. Pe urmele lui Costică Acsinte“) of her long article about Costică Acsinte in Cultura magazine. Merçi, Anca!

Ivan Sánchez wrote a very interesting article („10 tesoros fotográficos rescatados del olvido“) about some great photographs not known till recent times, including those made by Costică Acsinte. Gracias!

Uffe Christensen wrote an lengthy article („Ukendt pige knytter tre skæbner sammen“) about Costică Acsinte and Jane Long’s creations for the famous daily danish newspaper. Tak!

Pooiee Loh from Malaysia wrote an article („Aussie Photographer Transforms Vintage B&W Photos Into Magical Art“) for the australian magazine Techlÿ about Costică Acsinte project and Jane Long derivative work. Thank you!

On popular website MessyNessyChic an article („Faded Faces: The Recovered Archives of a Forgotten Photography Studio“) appeared about my project, fully illustrated with Acsinte’s photos. Thank you!

Herr Kurt Tutschek wrote an article („Ein Schatz löst sich auf“) about our project and got it publish in the well-known german publication Spiegel. Danke, Kurt!

lomorgaphy.de published a news about our project for german speaking audience. Dankeschön!

The Darkroom section of the Baltimore Sun website featured an article by Kalani Gordon („Digitizing negatives: Costica Acsinte, WWI army photographer“) about our project. Thanks!

NBC News published the story („Negatives Go Digital for Romanian WWI Army Photographer“) of Costică Acsinte on their website too. Thank you!

Ionuț Maxim wrote an article („Salvandu-l pe Costica Acsinte“) about Costică Acsinte Archive that was kindly published by IQads.ro. Mulțumesc mult! Later edit: at this moment, the original article is paywalled, so you can read the Q&A on archive.org.

Bogdan Cristel visited us two times in order to finish his extensive photo-report for Reuters news agency. He also kindly wrote an blog post („Faces of Romania’s past“) about this experience. Mulțumim mult, Bogdan!

pxlshot.ro is a partner who organized a nice digital restoration contest regarding one of Costică Acsinte’s photograph. They also published an interview about our project. Mulțumesc Radu & Mircea!

„Arhiva Costică Acsinte: Cum a fost recuperată o lume aproape uitată a României de demult“ is the name of the article that appeard on TVR website. Thank you, guys!

One of the firsts article („Busca la identidad de las 5.000 personas retratadas en los años veinte por un fotógrafo rumano“) that emphasize the public domain character of Costică Acsinte Archive. ¡Muchas gracias!

Leslie Torbett kindly took me an interview about my project and published it („The Costică Acsinte Archive“) on her website. Thank you again, Leslie!

Romania-Insider, a daily news in english from România website, took time to compile an article („Volunteer digitizes old photo collection of ‘Romanian ghosts’“) about Costică Acsinte and our project. Thank you Corina Chirileasa & Volker Moser!

historia.ro published an article via Adevarul about Costică Acsinte. Thank you!

Răzvan Băltărețu translated into romanian an article („Românul care ne salvează trecutul: mii de poze ale fotografului Costică Acsinte sunt digitalizate și publicate online“) first appeared on TimeLightbox. There was another article, wrote by Ionela Stănilă („Foto Colecția Acsinte face furori în străinătate. Fotografii vechi de un secol din Bărăgan, reînviate de o artistă din Australia“).

Petapixel published an article („One Man’s Quest to Save a Haunting 5000-Portrait Archive from the Clutches of Time“) about my project too. Thank you!

The phoblographer republished Time’s article about Costică Acsinte. Thank you!

One man’s art, using digital manipulation of images from the Public Domain to make creative remixes. In some circles, this is called Post-Post-Modernism, or “po-po-mo.” He decided to use two of Costică Acsinte’s photograph as a start for a new original work. I strongly encourage you for pay him a visit and, why not, acquire his art.

A stranger who maintains a blog and a flickr page helped identify lots and lots of uniforms, medals and military insignia that appears in Costică Acsinte’s photographs. When in doubt he/she consulted with Mr. Emil Boboescu, an expert in this field. Thank you both!

Véronique Ginouvès kindly echoed Flickr announcement on Les carnet de la phonothèque in her article “Les photographies de Costică Acsinte dans le domaine public”. Thanks again, Véronique!

Gala Societății Civile Foundation awarded the Art and Culture section’s first prize to Costică Acsinte project. Sîmtem onorați!

Nona Rapotan wrote another article („Foto(grafii) Splendid(e) din Colecția Costică Acsinte“) about Costică Acsinte and his Viața socială photobook. Mulțumesc mult, Nona!

Irina Ionescu-Homoriceanu wrote a very touching article („Costică Acsinte şi franjurii păcălitori ai vechimii“) about Viața socială photo-album. Mulțumesc mult, Irina!

Otilia Bălinișteanu wrote a kind article („Ioc interes prin târg“) about my project and the first photo-book published. Mulțumesc mult, Otilia!

Iulian Comănescu published both on print and online an article („Fotografiile lui Costică Acsinte. Specificul“) about our project. Mulțumesc, Iulian!

Costică Acsinte Archive’s old friend, Cristina Țintă, asked me few questions about my project and published an article („Colecția Costică Acsinte“) on F64 blog. Mulțumesc din nou, Cristina!

Oana D. Botezatu wrote an article („Fotografii vintage de Costică Acsinte, într-un proiect inedit“) for well known Marie Claire magazine. Mulțumesc, Oana!

Dani Corban wrote an article („Români admiraţi de jurnaliştii străini“) about Costică Acsinte Archive that appeared on re:acții website. Merci mult, Dani!

Jane Long wrote for Lens Culture an article about her work („Dancing with Costica“), mentioning Costică Acsinte Archive too. Thank you, Jane!

Victor Roncea supported the project during the IndieGogo crowd-funding campaign on his wonderful website. Mulțumesc mult, Victor!

Florizelle wrote a kind article („Foto Splendid C. Acsinte“) about Costică Acsinte archive on her personal blog. Merçi beaucoup!

Another article („Historien om fotografen Costică Acsintes 5 000 gamla glasplåtar“) about Costică Acsinte Archive appear in the swedish website Bildleverantörernas Förening (Swedish Picture Suppliers Association). Tack!

„Historic Glass-Plate Photos from Romania Restored and Turned into Colorful Art“ is the name of the article that presents the work of Australian photographer Jane Long who did something amazing with Acsinte’s photographs. Thank you!

Marco Villa published on Daily Best a very kind article („Gli splendidi ritratti d’epoca di Costica Acsinte“) about Costică Acsinte. Grazie!

Călin Stan published on his highly visited website an article („Colecția Costică Acsinte, imagini unice care conturează portretul României interbelice“) about our indiegogo campaign. Mulțumim, Călin!

International New York Times published on page 2 of 13th of march, 2014 newspaper an article („Salvaging a lost time“) dedicated to Costică Acsinte. Due to their subscription based policy, there is no direct link. Thank you, Esther!

An italian translation („Prima Guerra Mondiale, le foto del soldato in digitale“) of Reuters article was published in La Repubblica. Grazie mille!

A short article („Saving photos, preserving history“) citing Reuters appeared in Life and Style section of the Chigaco Tribune. Thanks!

Constantinescu Nicolaie kindly published on his great website an article of mine about the Costică Acsinte digitization procedure („Aspecte tehnice privind Colecţia Costică Acsinte“). The document is also available as PDF.

Simply Bucharest published a very kind article („Costică Acsinte: o altă comoară“) about my project. Mulțumesc mult!

Origo published an article („A kis vasgárdista és a szétszabdalt arcú lány“) and a photo gallery about Costică Acsinte. Köszönöm!

Portuguese language news portal from Brazil, globo.com published an article („Arquivo de fotógrafo da Primeira Guerra fica disponível na web“) about Costică’s photographs. Muito obrigado!

Cristina Țintă — one of the editors of Foto4All — was the first person to actually donate hard cash. The magazine featured a full page advertising our crowd-funding campaign in issue 34-35. Thank you, Cristina and Foto4All!

Tudor Clementina took me an interview about Costică Acsinte project that aired on 6th of February 2014 on Radio Campus and they kindly allowed me to publish it on vimeo. Vă mulțumesc mult!

They published own version („Time: Fantome româneşti şi cursa pentru salvarea unei arhive impresionante de fotografii“) of the original Time’s article. Thanks.

An image from Costică Acsinte Archive caused Alexandru Cercel to write an article („Amintiri cu dropii“) about a extinct bird that once populated Romanian plains. Merci mult, Alex!

Carmen Porteiro worte for this spanish based magazine an article („Rescatando el archivo de Costica Acsinte“) about our project. Muchisima gracias!

The Momentologist kindly listed Costică Acsinte Archive as „Projects… I adore. I would love to work on. that show humans aren’t hopeless.“ You have my thanks!

Florin Floreanu (one of the oldest friends of the project) published recently a post („Pariul lui Mario cu Acsinte“) on his guraialomitei.com

Marius Cosmeanu wrote an article for România Liberă („FOTO Celula de criză a unei arhive: colecția Costică Acsinte“) about how time destroys Costică Acsinte archive. Thanks Marius! The article appeared also on HotNews under the same title.

Professor Jonathan Morse was kind enough to write two articles about some of Costică Acsinte work: “All happy families are alike: the portraits of Costică Acsinte” and “Two grammars of seeing”. Thanks you again, professor!

A short presentation (in german) about our project. Danke!

In her article „Photographs in Terrible Condition“, Anna Krentz uses some of Acsinte’s photographs to illustrate the coolness of photographic negatives’ decay. Thank you!

Troy Farah wrote a nice article „The Tattered Remains of Costică Acsinte’s Ghostly Photographic Plates“ about our collection.  Thank you!