Archive for category: Photography

Rodinal Developments

24 June, 2008 (00:06) | Photography | By: Kurt

I recently started to process my own film. I’m tempted to add “again” to the end of that sentence, but in reality I’ve done little processing in my life, just a few rolls in school, and a couple of rolls a few years ago in an ultimately aborted attempt to start processing.

Kiyoshi and accordion

11 May, 2008 (18:59) | Japan - Photography, Photography | By: Kurt

Nagaoka Woody 45, Nikkor-W 180mm/5.6, 1/125, f.16, Fuji FP-100B45 instant film Kiyoshi has been my private English student for almost 3 years now. He has been playing the accordion for about 14 years, having settled on the instrument after unsatisfying tries at the guitar, piano, and violin. Twice a week he teaches beginning and intermediate [...]

Doctor and Nurse

8 April, 2008 (00:12) | Photography | By: Kurt

Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi, Manzanar War Relocation Center, 1943. Photo by Ansel Adams. Dr. Nello Pace and monkey, December, 1966, UC Berkeley. Photo by Ansel Adams.

Photography is permitted almost anywhere

13 March, 2008 (02:08) | Photography | By: Kurt

Photography. — Photography is permitted almost anywhere. No trouble will usually be experienced in changing plates at night, as most rooms have good shutters. A piece of non-actinic fabric and a few drawing pins will be found useful for covering the little window over the door by which a passage is often lit. Let me [...]

Standard Poverty

1 February, 2008 (00:02) | Photography | By: Kurt

Keeping his mouth shut and working fast as he had learned to on this job, Prescott got the baby crawling on the dirt floor between pans set to catch the drip from the roof. He got the woman and Dago and the baby and two smaller children eating around the table whose one leg was [...]

Old documents, new documents

1 January, 2008 (02:14) | Photography | By: Kurt

From Page 1 of MoMA’s press release for “New Documents” exhibition of 1967 Though of course they wouldn’t have known it at the time, The Museum of Modern Art’s 1967 exhibition, New Documents, organized by John Szarkowski and featuring the work of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand, became one of a handful of [...]