Art Photography: The Sinking Ship

East­man Kodak, man­u­fac­turer of films and papers: dis­con­tin­u­ing pro­duc­tion of all black-and-white paper.

JOBO Fototech­nic, maker of the finest color chem­i­cals and pro­cess­ing machines for small labs: shut­ting down US oper­a­tions.

Ilford, man­u­fac­turer of B&W films and papers: bank­rupt. Dis­con­tin­u­ing sev­eral films. Rumored to be con­tem­plat­ing the dis­con­tin­u­a­tion of all B&W paper!

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  1. Anonymous July 21, 2005

    I regret this report: being reared in a b&w world of pics, film, and early tv, i know the grace that medium can offer, the crisp­ness, the focus it demands; and admire that you care about it. —Your doctor

  2. Anonymous August 4, 2005

    I was tak­ing your tem­per­a­ture over on your site when I saw that you blew +105˙ and are now brained dam­aged … as are all of us who hap­pen to be as astounded as you about the non-film deba­cle you describe—a true AAr­rggh! —the doctor

  3. Anonymous August 9, 2005

    About Lan­dor & Assoc. vs TrueBrand…neat obser­va­tion: I think I would have missed the mis­di­rec­tional arrow of the com­pass (over on http://web.mit.edu/johnston/www/) had you not pointed it out, but once seen is like for­ever understood.

    Any­how, NWA itself has become (that is to say “done”) a far far bet­ter thing…” in the past four or five years than they’ve “ever done before” and we’ve been fly­ing it a lot.

    Glad for the ser­vice … sorry about the erad­i­cat­ing logo—says Yer Doc­tor, proc­to­log­i­cally speaking.

  4. The Good D October 12, 2005

    Actually…I do not approve of “Break in here at night, be found here in the morn­ing” signage.

    There are a cou­ple of rea­sons and if I knew how to respond to your OTHER site/blog other than via this kind of non sequitar I would open up and let all know.

    Any­how, in Malaysia…they mean exactly that and not any­thing less, so fool­ish West­ern crea­tures who think it is not in deadly earnest ought to take note: BEWARE.

    As for me … at hand…only when the hand bends to it.

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