Darkroom Quotes

• The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Beautiful, Dark, Gone

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• Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

  Zig Ziglar

  Recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous, Aa Meeting

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• It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

  Lacey Chabert

  Fun, Special, Visual Effects

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Needs, Lifestyle, Bizarre

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.

  Garry Winogrand

  Seductive, Cameras, Available

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Magic, Photographer

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• I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can

  John Sexton

  Photography, Tools, Photographer

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• It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Photography, Believe, Computer

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• There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's like imagery there. That always stuns me.

  Jessica Lange

  Looks, Film, Shots

  "Actress Jessica Lange". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 8, 2013.

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• To convey in the print the feeling you experienced when you exposed your film – to walk out of the darkroom and say: ‘This is it, the equivalent of what I saw and felt!’. That’s what it’s all about.

  John Sexton

  Feelings, Saws, Film

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• I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.

  Garry Winogrand

  Kids, Funny Things, Two

  Source: www.zinzin.com

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• The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.

  Anais Nin

  Cells, Soul, Photographer

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• You know what 'FEAR' stands for? It stands for 'False Evidence Appearing Real.' It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives.

  Gary Busey

  Real, Satan, Evidence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was outside in the light.

  Robert Adams

  Mean, Light, Ends

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good. I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can - that's where most of my prints end up.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Eye, Editors

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• Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the disturbances of common life. What they tell us is supposed to be for the ages, not for the next election. But the reality may be otherwise.

  Simon LeVay

  Reality, Ivory Tower, Age

  "Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality". Book by Simon LeVay, Cambridge: MIT Press. p. 9, 1996.

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• When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Artist, Views

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• I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Years, Tools

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• I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Couple, Artist, Years

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• I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key; in his eye's darkroom I can see my X-rayed heart, dissected body: I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard s study.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Eye, Keys

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.268, Faber & Faber

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• Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the civil rights movement and immigration. These stories, rendered through the words and eyes of a young Latina girl who came from Argentina to Marion, Alabama, are made vivid and immediate through Weaver's highly accessible drawings and dialogue. This is a book-about maturation, family, education, and social change-every schoolchild, parent, and citizen should experience.

  Sena Jeter Naslund

  Girl, Book, Eye

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• I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.

  Dianna Agron

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Children, School

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• I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

  Graham Nash

  Photography, Years, Photographer

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• My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Father, Dark

  "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

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