Light sensitive material: an introduction
Light sensitive material: an introduction
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10.1080/17540763.2021.1962230
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2021
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Henning M
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Henning M
Picture an enormous flat-bed machine, mounted on rollers and the length of several buildings, dwelling in a narrow pitch-black cavern into which no light can enter. 1 On this machine lies a long strip of paper or film and here it is coated with photosensitive emulsion and dried. Conceive of it as a giant creature, incubated in this cavern. It is a temperamental and hyper-sensitive being, affected not only by light but by temperature, humidity, air velocity, dust, contaminants in the air and in liquid. It is receptive and responsive to human touch and to certain metals. No people are allowed in its cave; it is watched over only by infrared cameras, and other sensors. Picture further, in a different room, lit by electric lights, a man who monitors this creature in its cave, via the images that illuminate several computer screens. Somewhere else in this building there is a group of people who receive and analyse various samples and scans which are extracted and produced by the machines in the darkened chamber. We are in the factory of Harman Technology, in Mobberley, a village in North-West England. This is one of the factories that belonged to Ilford Limited, the manufacturer which dominated British photographic production in the first half of the twentieth century alongside Kodak Limited (the British branch of the American giant Eastman Kodak). Harman Technology continues to produce Ilford photographic film and darkroom materials here. The factory visit was made as part of an Arts and Humanities Research Fellowship, which also funded archival research on Ilford Ltd, and supported the two-day conference Light| Sensitive| Material, held in London in late 2019. 2 photographies, 2021
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