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Faunce House also contains a computer center often utilized by campus publications, a licensed pub--for Brown students only--a post office, a hair stylist, the Campus Market, an eatery and a darkroom...
...shroud into its role as a modern touchstone was the testimony of a thoroughly modern invention: the camera. On May 28, 1898, a city councillor named Secondo Pia took the first photographs of the relic. One scholar recounts that as the negative image began to appear in his darkroom, Pia "nearly dropped the plate." Markings that had been faint on the cloth suddenly jumped out with such extraordinary clarity and added detail that "he felt certain he was looking on the face of Jesus." And, in subsequent exposures, his body. The lance wound in the chest and the bloody rivulets...
...jobs, all the while hoping for regular work in a photo studio--an ambition he picked up while working as an assistant to an itinerant street photographer. Depending on which story you believe, his nickname was either a smudged version of squeegee--one of his first jobs as a darkroom assistant involved wiping down prints as they came from the developing bath--or he gained it because, like a Ouija board, he could predict where the news would happen and get there first. For a while he played violin accompaniment in theaters that showed silent films. "I loved playing...
...didn't understand the postwar city of slum clearance and social workers, the one that the Jews and the Irish and the Italians were all leaving for the suburbs. So Weegee moved on too. Until his death in 1968, he devoted himself to 16-mm film projects and darkroom tricks that turned people into fun-house mirror caricatures, work of a kind that had been done earlier by Andre Kertesz and more effectively by Bill Brandt...
...pleasant memories. I was born in 1922 in Hugh's hometown of Greenfield, Iowa, and grew up there. I learned a lot about printing and photography from his father Kenneth. Many an hour I spent with Ken, learning how to develop and print my own film (in his darkroom) and hearing the rumble of that press in the background. JACK FOSTER Prescott, Ariz...