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Greater Florence Area
B usiness
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Restoring Marilyn
Florence’s The Archives LLC restores the Milton Greene collection to its original beauty
photographer anymore.”
But to restore the imag-
es, Greene had to jump head
he photographs of Mar-
fi rst into the digital world.
ilyn Monroe needed
Th e problem? He didn’t know
help. It’s not that they
what he was doing.
had been poorly cared for
“I’m really an old-fash-
over the decades — they had
ioned photographer who has
been stored with meticulous
darkroom training,” he said.
care. Th eir condition was an
“My background is printmak-
inevitable byproduct of time.
ing. I can look at the picture
Th e deep red lips of the ac-
and know what it needs, but
tress had faded. Th e platinum
I can’t necessarily do it. Th e
blond hair was riddled with
restoration is very time con-
scratches. Mildew spots cov-
suming, and I don’t have the
ered the iconic beauty mark.
patience for it.”
But aft er thousands of hours
Th is is where the team at
and years of work, the crew at
Th e Archives comes in —
the Florence-based business
James Penrod, Shawn Pen-
Th e Archives restored thou-
rod, Rob Welles and Stephen
sands of Milton H. Greene’s
Jones.
photographs of Monroe,
Th e fi rst part of the process
along with other Hollywood
is scanning the original pho-
royalty from the golden age
tograph into Th e Archive’s
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ARCHIVES’ MILTON H. GREENE COLLECTION
of fi lm.
computer system, which is
Photographer Milton H. Greene took hundreds of photos of actress Marilyn Monroe. Many of the iconic images needed special
Th e crew’s latest achieve-
done by James.
restoration — a mission that became his son Joshua Greene’s business, The Archives LLC.
ment is “Th e Essential Mar-
Th e youngest of the group,
ilyn by Milton H. Greene,” an about the book oft en involve his time.
Sinatra to Audrey Hepburn. His that was getting cut on the bud- James came with no formal edu-
internationally-released tome of own personal history with the
Greene started Th e Archives Monroe collection holds more get. All the advertising and all cation in computers or photogra-
more than 250 images, 100 of actress.
for a number of reasons, fi rst and than 4,000 photographs, which the clients I had in food, home phy, which he views as a positive.
which have never been released
“I feel like my non-back-
While Greene spins a tale of foremost to protect his father’s Greene has spent decades restor- furnishings and architecture
publicly.
the legendary Monroe with en- legacy.
ing.
went digital. I looked at that re- ground in photography has aid-
Th e photographs were taken thusiastic panache, he is also
“Knowing he had died, and
But it wasn’t just the resto- ality and said, ‘No, I’m not do- ed me,” he said. “I don’t have my
by Th e Archives owner Josh- proud to discuss the process that thinking that all his pictures ration project that got Greene ing this.’ If I’m going digital, I’m own ideas on how things are sup-
ua Greene’s father, Milton, a brought her iconic images back had faded away in his lifetime,” into the business.
going to do it my way. I’m going posed to be or how I think things
world-famous photographer best to life.
Greene said, “was an emotional
“I was also tired of doing pho- to live in the country with a nice should be. ‘By the book’ doesn’t
known for his work with Mon-
With a regiment of four em- draw.”
tography,” he said. “Photogra- quiet place. I want to focus on always work. You have to fi gure
roe, who was a close friend of the ployees, Th e Archives took on
Milton shot hundreds of thou- phy was going digital, and my what I do and run the compa- out ways to get things from the
Greene family. In fact, Greene the daunting task of cleaning up sands of images in his lifetime, specialty was location photog- ny. I want to save photography screen to page.”
said questions usually posed him the photographs one picture at a covering celebrities from Frank raphy. Th at was the fi rst thing instead of being a commercial
See ARCHIVES page 3
By Jared Anderson
Siuslaw News
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