Word: darkroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During their frigid all-nighters on Palomar Mountain, Gene guides the telescope, shooting two pictures, 40 min. apart, of each patch of sky. After developing the film in the observatory darkroom, he turns the negatives over to Carolyn, who scans each set of two under her stereo microscope. If anything has moved against the background of fixed stars during the 40-min. interval, it appears to float in the eyepiece. If so, it is an asteroid or comet and might someday present a threat...
...deepened or lightened. Images can be cloned, combined, sharpened or blurred and then painted from a palette of more than 16 million hues. The final product can be put to paper on a new generation of color printers that spit out enlargements nearly indistinguishable from those created in a darkroom...
DRIVING BACK TO central Pennsylvania with my developing chemicals and enlarger in my trunk, I feel a little like a Civil War photographer travelling with a darkroom in his covered wagon. I'm headed for an old eight-bedroom farmhouse that saw its heyday fifty years ago when, according to my mother, it boasted the largest barn in the valley. Now, only the first floor is occupied by tenants who come and go. I'll live there for four weeks while I photograph the people I meet and learn about the rural valley where my mother was born and raised...
...before he began photographing. "I wanted them to understand," says Afanador, "that I intended to portray a family and the love it felt, not a medical problem." Returning to New York City after several nights with very little sleep, he still was not finished. He headed straight to his darkroom, where he used old photographic paper and a special chemical process to provide the pictures' yellowish cast...