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Portrait at the Bay. Leica M4 shot of the preparations.<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. The title of this post is from a song by Pete Seeger. On March 15, 1979, I took my family to The Bay at Cloverdale (long gone – became Zellers, then Target, and now empty for over two years).<\/p>\n

The professional photographer did a number of portraits of my children that day. The results were shown to my wife and me and those we selected were printed. The framed portraits were hung in a hallway well out of sunlight and even incandescent lighting as the hallway I chose led to bedrooms.<\/p>\n

To my dismay, in few years, the photographs faded very badly to a muddy looking brown. They did not last a ‘lifetime’ as suggested in a two plus decade old Kodak ad. The professional had used Ektacolor paper which was intended for both professionals and amateurs.<\/p>\n

An article around that time\u00a0discussed a lengthy American lawsuit between Kodak and professionals who had been chastised by a legion of disappointed clients, especially wedding parties. In 1992, a respected American scientist, Henry Wilhelm, of \u00a0Wilhelm Imaging Research<\/a>, published his 700+ page book on ‘The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs’ which supported the earlier issue with Kodak’s Ektacolor paper. Long out of print, in 2003 the book was offered as a free download<\/a> from the Institute – a 35 mb informative read, well worth the download and reading time in spite of its dated material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. The title of this post is from a song by Pete Seeger. On March 15, 1979, I took my family to The Bay at Cloverdale (long gone – became Zellers, then Target, and now empty for over two years). … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,705],"tags":[801,21,800,585,802],"class_list":["post-7133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-photos","tag-ektacolor","tag-kodak","tag-permanence","tag-portrait","tag-wilhelm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7140,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions\/7140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}