Photochrome of a glacier, Grindelwald, Switzerland, c. 1890. © Rijksmuseum. 

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Volume X, Number 2 | spring 2017

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Color film in the 1950s barely registered dark skin tones; Kodak had developed the product to measure images against the white skin of a model known as Shirley. The company eventually modified its film emulsion, responding to complaints from advertisers promoting wood furniture and chocolate.

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

—Herman Melville, 1853
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