[Leica] IMGs: Letting go of "back in the day".

[jshulman at judgecrater.com (Jim Shulman)]

Of course, a generation before most guys were off to eternity by 65 or
earlier, often because of prolonged exposure to chemicals, dangerous
equipment, etc.

I remember meeting one darkroom technician in the 1970s who had
permanently brown-stained fingers--he said tongs were for sissies.  Wonder
what ever happened to him?

J


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 4:20 PM, George Lottermoser
<imagist3 at mac.com>wrote:

>
> On Oct 10, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>
> > Nice--you document a personal and technological transition at the same
> time, with a moving touch of melancholy.
>
> > On 10 Oct, 2011, at 22:19 , George Lottermoser wrote:
> >
> >> <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=5737>
>
> It totally amazes me that I:
> hand set metal and wooden type in college
> hand lettered and inked logos
> illustrated with airbrush, inks and watercolors
> shot 16 mm movie films to 12x20 sheet film
> edited movies with a razor blade
> maintained a darkroom since 1962
> emulsion stripped and retouched 8x10 Ektachromes
> then drum scans of all films
> working through 13 versions of Photoshop and Illustrator
> from PageMaker to InDesign CS5
> from Mac SE's to Mac Pro's
> shot digital video - editing in FinalCut Pro
> watched the typographers and film strippers lose their jobs
> etc etc
>
> all in one "short" life time.
>
> The generation that came before me
> Used more or less the same gear they started with
> for their entire career.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
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Chris Saganich
www.imagebrooklyn.com

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