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From Darkroom to Daylight by Harvey Wang

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Photographer and filmmaker Harvey Wang has had a photography career that spans over 40 years, and a film career of more than 25 years. The author of six books and the recipient of numerous awards, he has received critical acclaim for his beautiful and poignant portraits of Americans from many walks of life. He is perhaps best known for his photographs of New Yorkers in the 1980s in vanishing jobs and professions which led Sal Dolnick of The New York Times to call him “a bard of the old New York.”

Much of Wang’s work has been about change – the disappearance of trades, neighborhoods, and ways of life. As a photographer he has lived through a change in his own profession that has affected him and many of his peers profoundly – the coming of the digital age which over the past 20 years has seen negative enlargers and chemical darkrooms substituted by computers and image-processing software. In 2000, Wang began to shoot digital, but he discovered he was not entirely comfortable with these new methods of working.

He wondered how other veteran photographers who like him have spent most of their careers working with film were coping in this new photographic universe. He decided to utilize his documentary photography and filmmaking skills to find out. The result is From Darkroom to Daylight (Daylight, Spring 2015), a beautiful and engaging book that explores how the dramatic change from film to digital has affected photographers and their work.

Alan Trachtenberg, author and professor of English and American Studies, Yale University writes about the book: “This collection of interviews and personal narratives, accompanied by Harvey Wang’s splendid portraits, offers a revelation and hence an invaluable record of key issues in how and why photographers today choose to go one way or the other, toward film or digital methods, toward darkroom or daylight.”

Harvey Wang interviewed and photographed more than 40 important photographers and prominent figures in the field, including Jerome Liebling, George Tice, Elliott Erwitt, David Goldblatt, Sally Mann, Jeff Jacobson, Gregory Crewdson, Susan Meiselas and Eugene Richards, as well as innovators Steven Sasson, who built the first digital camera while at Kodak, and Thomas Knoll, who, along with his brother, created Photoshop. This collection of personal narratives and portraits is both a document of this critical moment and a unique history of photography.

 

BOOK
From Darkroom to Daylight
Photographs by Harvey Wang
Publisher : Daylight Books
ISBN: 9780989798181
Hardcover
7.5 X 9 Inches
180 Pgs, Illustrated throughout
$45.00 US

http://daylightbooks.org

http://pro.harveywang.com

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