The retro gallery goes back to days of pan-x, plus-x and tri-x. Late nights became early mornings. Tongs, trays, chemicals, and magic baths. Practitioners spoke of developers, fixers, and hydro-wash. Ilford, Agfa, and Kodak were select printing papers. Fuji and Kodachrome cassettes were either mailed or developed in bathrooms. Overexposing, under-developing, reciprocity, ten zones, pre-visualization became language.
But retro is more than throw-back. Retro is comfort in knowing growth years are sprinkled with substance. Pathways explored form visual insights. Nobel Laureate Annie Erneaux confessed that writing was her drive “to fight forgetting.” An essential leg of photography’s tripodian strength reveals such a maxim. These images reveal humanity. Paul Simon opined this, ” Preserve your memories. They’re all that’s left you.”
Our moments, our memories. A mirror of are and were. Back then is still now.
Vietnam protest Kentucky capitol
Cemetery runner
Self-portrait
Santa Santa & Salvation Army
Terry
Newspaper photographer
Welder
Mac the crane operator
Carpenter