My first darkroom was built in a corner of a basement — 1957, the year of Sputnik. I began with a Kodak darkroom kit supplemented with an Ansco printer. Delighting in BW expired, or is that expanded to the stage in 1960 when I began printing color. An upgraded darkroom from paper-route and summer work at a boatyard [ yes, that young] My color prints were from color negatives printed on Kodak Pan Matrix Dye Transfer materials.

I had two key items: the first was my “black box” for managing light tight operations in reduced dust space. The other was a point light. Around 1970, I wrote guides, notebooks really, for my method of working in color.