a Kodak ad for their darkroom products in late 1954
Toronto. It’s hard to imagine the thrill of first seeing a photograph emerge in developer under the gloomy illumination of a dim safe light.
As a kid, I can remember this thrilling event. At the time, film development was a bit more iffy so I had others develop each roll ready for me to print.
Kodak, in its effort to be omnipresent in photography, had its own line of darkroom products. This fall, 1954 ad in Popular Mechanics entices the reader to try his hand at darkroom work using Kodak products.
Thanks to good friend and fellow photo historian, George Dunbar, for seeing and sharing this wonderful bit of history. It brought back a lot of memories for me. My first goal, after seeing the image rise like Lazarus from the blank sheet of paper, was to learn how to make the images even cleaner and more realistic.
