Word: darkrooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
After collecting thousands of feet of film, Tassel processed the photographs in the darkroom of his Lexington, Mass., home. The portfolio is still evolving. "I don't know if it'll ever end," Tassel says...
...Moore) enters the picture as a block in Charles's viewfinder: she's standing in front of a boat he wants to photograph. In person, she stirs Charles about as much as if she were his lens cap, or maybe a free. But somewhere between the wharf and the darkroom, her photo becomes something more. Out a mix of photo dots. Lawra becomes line Love, the antuhesis to the cheap sex hunger pains of Charles's brother...