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Golden Memories by Lee Shulman is a deeply poetic exploration of forgotten moments, uplifted through precious material transformation. For over eight years the artist has rescued anonymous colour slides — snapshots of lives once lived — and, in this series, he prints them on sheets of gold leaf. The gold, with its sacred and eternal connotations, elevates ordinary domestic scenes, holiday poses and candid glances into the realm of memory’s shrine. On these fragile surfaces, light moves, image and gold merge, and the photograph becomes a meditation on impermanence and presence. The project invites us to stop before the ordinary, to bear witness to lives we do not know and yet somehow recognise. With this book, Shulman expands his ongoing mission to restore dignity to forgotten photographs and asks what it means to remember in an age of fading analog material. Golden Memories is at once elegy, tribute and icon — a quiet invitation to honour the visual traces of our collective past.

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Born in London in 1973, Shulman lives and works in Paris. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale and Rencontres d'Arles, and is held in major collections such as the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and Photo Elysée in Lausanne. To date, fourteen monographs of Lee Shulman & The Anonymous Project's work have been published. Portrait of Lee Shulman (c) Lee Shulman Share Lee Shulman is a visual artist, filmmaker, and founder of The Anonymous Project, one of the most significant archives of vernacular color photography in existence. Since 2017, the project has amassed nearly one million Kodachrome slides from the 1940s to the early 2000s -- intimate, everyday images that might have otherwise been lost to time. Through curation and transformation, Shulman reanimates these personal photographs, weaving them into compelling narratives that explore memory, family, love, and cultural shifts across generations. Shulman's practice is deeply rooted in preservation and reinvention. His work takes many forms that reimagine the original slide, from Cibachrome prints and lightboxes to immersive installations and digital interventions. By placing vintage snapshots in a contemporary context, he invites reflection on our shared visual history and its resonance today. In an era where photographs are increasingly created and consumed digitally, his sculptural works -- such as jewel boxes containing unique vintage slides -- underscore the enduring connection between photography, memory, and materiality. Collaboration is integral to his approach, and he has worked closely with artists such as Omar Victor Diop and Martin Parr to expand the project's dialogue.

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