From Darkroom to Daylight: Interviews with Photographers by Harvey Wang [ePUB]

From Darkroom to Daylight: Interviews with Photographers
by Harvey Wang (Author)

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Publication Date: July 2016



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.”

The project began as a personal exploration of how the dramatic change in photography from chemical to digital processes has affected photographers and their work. At first a love letter to the silver process and darkroom, FROM DARKROOM TO DAYLIGHT touches on the history of photography, the coming of digital, and what became possible with digital methods. The story is told through the voices of many artists whose work and methods embody various aspects of the story. I have spoken with over 40 important photographers including Sally Mann, David Goldblatt, Platon, Sid Kaplan, Richard Sandler, Jeff Jacobson, Stephen Wilkes, Constantine Manos, Gregory Crewdson, John Cyr, Alfred Gescheidt, Adam Bartos, George Tice, Jerome Liebling and Susan Meiseles .


I visited the Ilford factory in England to talk to Howard Hopwood about film production, and spoke with Steven Sasson, who invented the digital camera while at Kodak. I was also able to meet with Thomas Knoll who recounted how he and his brother invented Photoshop, the software that changed the world.


Much of my own published photography has been about disappearance--of trades, neighborhoods, ways of life--and to live through this transition in my own craft has enabled me to document the state of the art as both an insider and also as a documentary photographer.

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