Introduction
Today everybody seems to be a genius, but nobody can draw a hand anymore.
-Renoir
Why invest the time and money necessary to develop and print your own photographs? Historically there have been many photographers, especially in the field of photojournalism and commercial photography, who have never printed their own images; one of the most famous would be Henri Cartier-Bresson, proponent of capturing the “decisive moment.”
But consider that the camera only records what we see. Tripping the shutter only freezes a moment in time. The moments recorded by Cartier-Bresson have become images only after they have been developed and printed in a way they can be presented and shared with oth- ers in magazines or through books and ...
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