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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...
...changed after 1888, the year George Eastman introduced the inexpensive Kodak. Amateur photography became the new folk art, and fine-art practitioners had to scramble for a way to distinguish themselves from the mobs of snapshooters. Their response was pictorialism, an international style of soft focus, poetic yearnings and darkroom tricks that were beyond the abilities of the untrained. During the pictorialist phase of their careers, Alvin Langdon Coburn in England and Edward Steichen in the U.S. turned away from mere realism toward a metaphysical art, one of broad hazy forms that hinted at an elusive realm of ideas...
Slowly, like a photograph developing in a darkroom, the faint outlines of how a Central American peace might look are beginning to emerge. The boldest step toward that goal was taken last week in El Salvador, where the National Assembly approved a broad amnesty law that applies to both leftist guerrillas and members of right-wing death squads. The bill was passed to comply with the Guatemala accord, which calls for the freeing of political prisoners but does not specify who fits that definition. Among those expected to benefit from the amnesty are the right-wing national guardsmen who killed...
...broomstick of his landlady he swallowed his pride enough to live off of distant relatives and faint acquaintances until he got himself a camera and began shooting. With no prior photographic experience, his early days as a photographer were anything but propitious. Capa was especially atrocious in the darkroom where he would often destroy his negatives and sometimes those of others. But it was in his eyes that his talent lay. He knew very little of the technical side of photography, but his ability to catch stunning images was evident from the beginning. He joined a photo agency where...