Milan, exhibition district. Enrico Chierici visits the 1940 trade fair, among whose stands appears, well recognizable, those of Perugina and SALEM - the "Alloys and Metals Limited Company", the company which the amateur worked for in Rapallo, until he was recruited for the war. The artifacts on the image, instead, are a trait of cellulose triacetate decay: in advanced stages, in fact, the film base cannot hold the plastifiers anymore, so they migrate toward the surface of the film, blooming in these peculiar crystals.
Milan, exhibition district. Enrico Chierici visits the 1940 trade fair, among whose stands appears, well recognizable, those of Perugina and SALEM - the "Alloys and Metals Limited Company", the company which the amateur worked for in Rapallo, until he was recruited for the war. The artifacts on the image, instead, are a trait of cellulose triacetate decay: in advanced stages, in fact, the film base cannot hold the plastifiers anymore, so they migrate toward the surface of the film, blooming in these peculiar crystals.