Category: olden ways

the masters movement

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the darkroom masters of 2K have moved onto digital.
more than a handful of the big time darkroom workshop given, silver slingers of the film age have moved onto the digital scene.
scenery doesn’t care who looks, nor how they look at it.

i’ve thought that the people for whom the arduous work of a darkroom would be the most apt to make use of digital tools. they have already mastered conflicting concepts, as well as gaining all manner of manual skills. the conceptual, the idea forming mode changes method but not basic understanding. learn a few new words, and bingo bango — new is newer.

the digit becomes digital

MoMA | For the sake of thought: Provoke, 1968–1970

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MoMA | For the sake of thought: Provoke, 1968–1970: “”

“Provoke (Purovōku) was an experimental magazine founded by photographers Yutaka Takanashi and Takuma Nakahira, critic Koji Taki, and writer Takahiko Okada in 1968. The magazine’s subtitle read as: shisō no tame no chōhatsuteki shiryō (Provocative documents for the sake of thought).”