Robert Burley’s Photos of the Moribund Film Industry

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Picturing the End of Analog

The factories that churned out billions of rolls of film have imploded — much like the market. Robert Burley deftly captures the passing of an era.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/picturing-the-end-of-analog/

joy, confusion, excitement and, yes, loss — are vividly evoked by Robert Burley’s book “The Disappearance of Darkness: Photography at the End of the Analog Era.” In it, he chronicles the breakneck speed at which film and the huge factories where it was produced have almost vanished