She was often in the building, carrying her bags and wicker basket, bending over her work, visiting the darkroom, bustling and purposeful.
Early on, there were trips to her house, introductions to family and friends, the ritual of the Thursday curry in the staff canteen, the joy in showing me contact strips fresh from the darkroom, the visit together to a man near the British Library who serviced cameras, a trip to Glastonbury to take photos of rock stars.
If you want, you can go the whole hog and develop the images yourself, with a homemade darkroom and sheets of glass and bottles of chemicals.
When photography was a matter of exposing rolls of film, Kodak was primarily in the chemicals business: making films, darkroom agents and light-sensitive papers.
He took advantage of a disused darkroom to experiment with portraits and nudes.
The Atlas Gallery in London is showing a collection of more than 130 of Ray's darkroom contact prints.
After dropping out of high school she went to work in the darkroom of Florian Mitchell's commercial portrait-photography studio on $6 a week.
Often headless, these naked women appear remote and mysterious, owing to Blumenfeld's use of mirrors, diaphanous fabrics and solarisation (a darkroom technique that inverts the lights and darks of an image).
He wistfully recalls a spell as a bon viveur in Greenwich Village in his 20s, collecting paintings by David Hockney, poaching striped bass for dinner parties and setting up a darkroom in his apartment.But these passages soon give way to an oddly flat account of Mr Browne's time at BP.
Among photographers, meanwhile, to photoshop is common currency for what you do to an image after you've snapped it, maybe because it's an activity so far removed from the laborious darkroom processing of physical film that it needs its own new word.There is no to microsoft or to apple, obviously, because those words don't stand for any particular action.
But unlike Ingres or Seurat, who regrouped or recomposed figures at will, Mr Cartier-Bresson never tries to improve an image by cropping in the darkroom.
