![]() The meter and the images in the collection were the Rosetta Stones which connected the technical and physical aspects of photography and its capacity to elicit a viewer's imagination and emotions. In the late 1950's I bought a fifteen-dollar light meter and a paper-back copy of The Family of Man. A few years later, when I graduated from high school, my parents gave me a real camera, a twin-lens Zeiss Ikoflex, and a few years after that a friend at college introduced me to the possibilities of the darkroom where my interest in the technical dimensions of photography grew to include the chemistry and the flexibility of print making. I was fascinated by the mysterious numbers on the mechanism of the camera with its uncoated Bausch and Lomb f/6.3 lens. ![]() It was probably on Verichrome Pan or Super XX with a folding Kodak roll-film camera that had belonged to my grandmother. I was twelve when I exposed my first black and white film in the early 50's. Until recently I have been skeptical of the photographic digital technology pixel heads were trying to sell me. Luddite: Etymology: from Ned Ludd, a member of the organized bands of English handicraftsmen who in 1811, destroyed the textile machinery that was displacing them: one who is opposed to technological change. (the re-creation of black and white photography) by William A.
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