KATE TAYLOR
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
May 2, 2008 at 9:33 PM EDT
Toronto artist Robert Burley is currently documenting
the fate of chemical photography, recording the abandonment and demolition of
various Kodak plants. The films, papers and processing chemicals these factories
produced will soon be obsolete, although Burley himself is still physically
printing images from negatives, albeit ones he edits digitally. The most notable
of Burley's large, highly detailed colour photographs shows the implosion of
buildings 65 and 69 at Kodak Park in Rochester, N.Y., where a crowd that
includes people who worked in the plant busily snap pictures of its demise on
their digital cameras. Whatever sacrifices it may demand, technology is
irresistible.
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'The films, papers and processing chemicals these factories
produced will soon be obsolete...'
polaroid is already a goner :(
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robert burley.
my (future) professor. kkkk.
