Word: darkroom
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...unlikely mixture of worldly and parochial, secular and devout, in 1930s Budapest. Her father Imre was at the top of his class in a private school but unable to attend university because of restrictions on Jewish admission. As a result, he immersed himself in photography, developing his own darkroom techniques and leaving behind a striking black-and-white archive. A pacifist and intellectual, Imre refused to allow even popguns in his home, opposed the circumcision of his son and delighted in making whole villages out of folded paper for his children. "He was such a gentle, modest man," says Judit...
Combining his skill and interest in photography with his social personality, Lewis involved himself in House life as a darkroom officer in the Leverett House Arts Society. He was also a photography editor for the Harvard Independent...
...Tropicana Field, Jakes' subject turns out to be every man's value as created in God's image, and the necessity of allowing God to develop that image as a photographer develops a piece of film. "Is there anybody here who's been in a darkroom?" he asks, alluding both to film processing and the dark places of the soul. The men, including hundreds watching via satellite hookup from prisons, roar in recognition. An hour later, lakes of sweat spreading across his formidable frame, Jakes has abandoned form and logic and is chanting, "Develop it, man, develop it. Develop...
...Lacking any student voice, the article presented a warped view of the staff and faculty, notably Professor Christopher Killip and Arnheim Lecturer on Studio Arts Nancy M. Mitchnick. Killip arrives early every day and greets the students who are just finishing up their darkroom all-nighters. He takes on many summer research advisees and supervises intensive tutorials; this year, he even took on an extra class for rising seniors in the spring to make up for the loss of a visiting faculty member. Individually meeting with students and arranging field trips to local exhibitions, Killip keeps...
...Once "captured," an image can be bent again. I know a newspaper snapper whose moody scene of a desert under a full moon was challenged by an astute reader: my friend had moved the moon to enhance his shot ... and turned it upside down. This decades ago in a darkroom, when computer tricks like morphing were unheard...