The Last Library of Congress Darkroom Prints
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This is an 8x10 negative of the cabin of a black sharecropper family in Hale County, Alabama, c. 1935-36. This shows the negative as it is in the enlarger, and shining down onto the easel where the photographic paper goes.
For the first time since 1938, the Library of Congress has stopped selling silver gelatin prints of images in its collection. Earlier this month, freelance printer Franz Jantzen developed his final batch, including iconic images by Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, and Dorothea Lange.
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