![]() On why it's important to care about photography and skin color We've seen so many images of black bodies denigrated, or rendered as criminals, or rendered in a way that doesn't necessarily reflect a kind of normalcy. So for him to recognize that there's a lack of variety and nuance or complexity in dark brown or dark skin images is very telling. His experience with the film stock - and Kodak film stock was more than what we just put inside our cameras - it's also the film stock that was likely used in motion picture making. ![]() was commissioned to for the Mozambique government, and what was fascinating about Godard's position is that he felt that the film was inherently racist and said so. That's probably why the color isn't reading our skin tones in varied lighting situations correctly. I think a lot of folks just thought that, perhaps, the color film, they're not very good photographers. It wasn't so much that Kodak didn't encounter a groundswell of resistance from the African-American community. So the Shirley cards became a rubric to set up or establish what would be a much more perfected color image. So she's a pale, white-skinned woman dark hair, that's set against a rather banal background to try and see how white skin fared in a high-contrast light situation. ![]() Kodak Eastman had a model on staff named Shirley, they used as a human face to meter the printed color stock. ![]()
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