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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg
This somehow reminded me of the craziest photojournalism story I heard from the film days - this was back in the 70s and a photographer for my city's daily was assigned to photograph the President (not sure if it was Nixon, Ford, or Carter) as he stepped either on or off of Air Force 1, then fly in a chartered helicopter directly to the paper's printing press (which was about a mile from downtown in an industrial area), and slap the photo on the press as quickly as possible since the whole thing was being held for this photo. To achieve this the photographer claimed that he developed the film while flying in the helicopter. Now I think this story was embellished (it was told at the guy's funeral) but nevertheless it illustrates the great lengths necessary in the film days to make an image happen.
Photographs are definitely much less special in the digital era and dare I say have lost their magic. The weird thing is that it seems to me like old photographs have lost their magic a bit as well, maybe because we're all going through photo fatigue thanks to our phones and computers.
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You had 24-36 exposures per a roll of film and you had to make everyone of them count. Now, we take pictures of literally everything and never look at most of them.
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