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Sailing on
We have been on our holidays, but were also overwhelmed by correspondence resulting from July’s BBC Radio 4 documentary about the project, ‘Old Photographs Fever‘, and the accompanying BBC News slideshow. Many wonderful new collections were offered to us, and … Continue reading
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Tagged children, photography, portrait, Shanghai, studio, Update
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Studio portrait of a Chinese woman
This striking photograph (JC-s037), with strong diagonals in the style of Alexander Rodchenko, may well be the work of an unidentified Chinese studio photographer working in the racy, cosmopolitan Shanghai of the 1930s. The precise combination printing and the masterly … Continue reading
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Tagged Carstairs, photograph, photography, portrait, studio, surrealism
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You press the button, we do the rest
Here then is ‘the rest’: at this Kodak Professional School in Shanghai in 1923, students are learning to spool and process negatives, enlarge, develop, fix and dry prints, then guillotine and dry mount them – the skilful practical application of … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day, Visualisation
Tagged advert, advertising, business, chemical, chemistry, Crellin, darkroom, developer, dryer, education, enlarger, guillotine, Kodak, laboratory, negatives, photograph, photographs, photography, print, safelight, scales, snap, snaps, studio, timer, training
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