Robert, who was president of his high school camera club, enlisted in the Army in 1946 and was assigned to be a photographer in the Signal Corps.
He was escorted off campus in June 2008 after another teacher reported finding sexually explicit photographs on a school camera in Mr. Toth's possession.
I got a key cut to the film school camera room so that I could take a camera out at night as long as I put it back in the morning.
Over at the press hut, a crew of "war correspondents" had set up a period darkroom, developing black-and-white photos shot with an array of old-school cameras, aiming for prints that looked like they'd fallen out of a 1944 time capsule.
In most schools, cameras are placed sparingly in places known to attract crime or where security may be a concern: hallways, stairwells, common areas and parking lots.
Though not expressly stated in these findings, it would seem that in the case of high schools, cameras are more of a way to catch rule-breakers after the fact than a way to prevent violence and other criminal activities.
Given all that, the upsides to working an old-school camera into your daily routine are numerous.
Many of the subjects are not generally given in residence schools: camera repair, horology (clock-making and repair), floristry, locksmithing, gemology, and safety, for example.
Singh never formally studied photography — though he was in the high-school camera club — but, in Cartier-Bresson, he found his teacher, nonetheless (and he met him in person several years later).
When is the last time you took a photo with an old-school camera — the kind that doesn't have a wireless connection, needs to be loaded with finicky rolls of film and is too bulky to slide into a back pocket?
