My journals begin in the Fall of 1969, during my second residence in Baltimore, after my first real year of college as a Professional Photography major at the Rochester Institute of Technology. There was a third period I spent there after my first marriage ended. ("Why? He should recover his wits there, and if not, then 'tis of no consequence, for there the men are as mad as he!") After that third time in Baltimore, I quit my job of three years in the Research Labs at Eastman Kodak Company and started Luminscript, Ltd., offering Creative Portraiture and Graphic Design.
In many ways, Baltimore delineates the four phases of my photographic career; (1) First Light - Life Before the Hasselblad, (2) Face Down in a Tray of Dektol - Living Off My Pictures, (3) Getting It Together - The Beth/Kodak Years, and (4) Götterdämmerung - Luminscript, Ltd. and The Joni Pictures.
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(The Wall of Pictures - 1968) is the only record of my first year
as a photographer. I was living in Baltimore, MD for the first
time, and had mounted these prints on the wall over the fireplace
in the place where I lived. (I think I lived there about 15 months
the first time.) There are 22 images on the wall. I only have
the original negatives for a few of them. Prints of two of them
are still part of my permanent collection.
The reproductions that follow are really awful. They do look better on a computer screen, but their quality is still objectionable. On the other hand, they are copies of a copy of a copy. (More about this later.) I am still experimenting with the image enhancement software that I have available at the moment, and there are several obsticles that cannot be overcome. Suffice to say that the graininess of the images is because the print is on textured paper, and it is poorly lit, as was the original scene. Note how the left side is lighter than the right side. Also, the prints on the right exhibit a perpective distortion that makes their right edges shorter than their left edges.
Last update: 13-May-96 by dennette@wiz-worx.com
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