darkroom
noun
dark·room
ˈdärk-ˌrüm 
-ˌru̇m
: a room with no light or with a safelight for developing light-sensitive photographic materials
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Born in Juneau, Alaska, Patrice Aphrodite Helmar's artistic journey began in their father's camera shop and darkroom.
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Photovogue, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2024
Francis would have known that, for more than a century before he was born, in 1937, photographic technique — lighting and exposure, in the studio, and then developing and printing and even retouching, in the darkroom — had deliberately been used to lighten Black complexions, and negate them.
—Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
Vintage cameras sit on a shelf, and a cramped darkroom is just off the kitchen.
—David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
On the night of Mayor Marion Barry’s drug arrest in a downtown hotel — a tectonic event for the District — O’Leary was working late on prints in The Post darkroom.
—Natalia Jiménez-Stuard, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2023
Apartheid rules forbid Black photographers from using the same darkrooms as White colleagues.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
The same antibodies that have long immunized us against darkroom tricks—our skepticism, common sense, and reliance on social verification—are protecting us from being duped by deepfakes.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
During a total solar eclipse the lighting grows decidedly eerie—equal parts post-apocalyptic (as if a UFO were overtaking our local star) and photographic (like an underexposed print viewed in a darkroom).
—Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2023
When the contemporary artist Mariah Robertson first started playing around in her darkroom with light-sensitive paper, hand-applying chemicals and trying out different exposure techniques, a whole new world opened up.
—Grace Edquist, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023
Photovogue, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2024
Francis would have known that, for more than a century before he was born, in 1937, photographic technique — lighting and exposure, in the studio, and then developing and printing and even retouching, in the darkroom — had deliberately been used to lighten Black complexions, and negate them.
—Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
Vintage cameras sit on a shelf, and a cramped darkroom is just off the kitchen.
—David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
On the night of Mayor Marion Barry’s drug arrest in a downtown hotel — a tectonic event for the District — O’Leary was working late on prints in The Post darkroom.
—Natalia Jiménez-Stuard, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2023
Apartheid rules forbid Black photographers from using the same darkrooms as White colleagues.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
The same antibodies that have long immunized us against darkroom tricks—our skepticism, common sense, and reliance on social verification—are protecting us from being duped by deepfakes.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
During a total solar eclipse the lighting grows decidedly eerie—equal parts post-apocalyptic (as if a UFO were overtaking our local star) and photographic (like an underexposed print viewed in a darkroom).
—Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2023
When the contemporary artist Mariah Robertson first started playing around in her darkroom with light-sensitive paper, hand-applying chemicals and trying out different exposure techniques, a whole new world opened up.
—Grace Edquist, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023
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darkroom
noun
dark·room
ˈdärk-ˌrüm
-ˌru̇m
: a lightproof room used in developing photographic materials (as film and prints)
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