Firenze, 2011
I spent forty years as a conventional, analog, chemical-based photographer, and the last twenty years as a computer-based, digital photographer/image-maker. By choice, little remains from those earlier times and everything now is on two terabytes of hard disk space—immediately accessible for review (on big, calibrated computer screens) and modification.
What a wonderful time in which to have lived…so far.
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I can relate. I spent years myself developing Tri-X and a handful of other X's and Ilford negative films, and a few more years printing them, and inhaling God only knows how many chemicals, and thinking (relatively) nothing of it. Something about the whole process, I think, was akin to being an alchemist's - or a wizard's - apprentice: you shut yourself in the dark cave and create magic. Or...you try.
And, I have to say, I quite love having a digital darkroom at my metaphoric and literal fingertips.
I liked using my old analog cameras - Leicas, Contaxes, quite a few Pentaxes, and a diminutive but oh-so-cool Rollei with a pop-out lens.
But I don't really miss them. Their modern descendents are every bit as good for me.
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