Before Photoshop and plug-ins there was Solarization.

            Custer County, NE 1983 — In the beginning, ok, not the beginning, but a long, long time ago, cameras used to hold film. And most people didn't get to see their pictures for maybe a week. But there were reporters, more accurately cub reporters, that were allowed to develop their film right after they shot it. The prints were going into the newspaper. 

Way back then you learned photography and the darkroom by someone teaching you, or by reading the Time Life books. Those books talked about photography and art and processes other than the norm. 

Man Ray was mentioned and his processes were very radical at the time. In the middle of the development process, after you exposed the print with the enlarger and the print was in the developer, you would turn on the light and weird but sometimes really cool things would happen. The whites would start to turn black, the blacks would start to turn white, and miracles sometimes happened.

This print is the result of being all alone in a basement darkroom on a Saturday night after spending the day photographing highschool wrestling. What can I say, once I had the prints I needed for the newspaper, the chemicals were going to be thrown away. It was a good time to run some experiments to practice what I learned that week in my reading. And maybe, just maybe create something good enough to put in a portfolio.

Minolta X-700
Minolta MD 35-70mm ƒ3.5
ASA 400, ƒ11, 1/60 with flash
Kodak Tri-X
   

Taken on: January 1, 1983

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