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The Roll Was a Fixed Budget and Everybody Counted
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A roll held twelve exposures, or twenty, or twenty-four, and that was the entire supply until somebody…
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In 1975 the yearbook printed a directory at the back listing every student by name, with their home address and telephone number, and distributed several hundred copies around…
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In 1965 your photographs went away in a paper envelope and came back a week or more later, and until they did you had no idea whether any…
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The portrait studio was a serious small business in 1962 America. Every town had at least one, the photographer was a tradesman with real technical training, and the…
Prints deteriorate through several separate processes, some driven by light, some by chemistry and some by whatever they were stored in. Here are fifteen.
1. Colour Prints Are Made of…
Light leaves every point of a subject in all directions. A lens collects some of that and reconverges it, and the entire craft is built on the properties and failures…