And so I became an acolyte in the Temple of Kodak. Like a convert, I embraced the rituals, spending hours under the soft amber lights, holding beakers like chalices, head bowed over trays in worshipful anticipation. There was a Zen-like comfort to these processing and printing sessions, which calmed me. I would go in after dinner and not emerge sometimes until sunrise — often with a few rolls of bulk-loaded Tri-X jangling in my makeshift camera bag, ready for new adventures.
Tag: David Gonzalez
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David Gonzalez Reflects on the Passing of the Kodak Era
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Close-Ups of Puerto Rican New York
Close-Ups of Puerto Rican New York
Eight photographers captured what it meant to live in New York and call oneself Puerto Rican.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/close-ups-of-puerto-rican-new-york/
“Dia” embraces the period from the 1960s to the 1980s — when Puerto Rican New York was very much on the rise — with the work of eight photographers: Máximo Colón, Joe Conzo, Perla de León, Pablo Delano, Frank Espada, Ricky Flores, David Gonzalez (a Times colleague and frequent contributor to Lens) and Francisco Reyes II.