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Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was outside in the light. -- Robert Adams
The darkroom is just the means to an end. -- Kim Weston
I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years. -- Graham Nash
My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom. -- Lacey Chabert
I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today. -- Douglas Kirkland
I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing. -- Imogen Cunningham
When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom. -- John Sexton
I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom. -- Annie Leibovitz
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification. -- Joe McNally
For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom. -- John Sexton
Then I thought I was going to be a photographer. I tried a hand at darkroom technician. I played in a band. It took me quite some time to discover that I wanted to write. -- Guy Johnson
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night. -- Sam Abell
I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom. -- John Sexton
There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's, like, imagery there. That always stuns me. -- Jessica Lange
I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own darkroom. I would go out at six in the morning and just take pictures. -- Steven Klein
I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working. -- Alaina Huffman
It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming. -- John Sexton
I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14. -- Bill Atkinson
I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film. -- Mary Ellen Mark
Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the digital age. The photograph, as it was printed in the darkroom, became visible bit by bit. As you read your way through a novel, the same chemical process takes place. -- Patrick Modiano
I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation. -- Dianna Agron
Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed. -- Zig Ziglar
I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can -- John Sexton
My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is -- Robert Mapplethorpe
Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else. -- Garry Winogrand
It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me. -- Jerry Uelsmann
You know what 'FEAR' stands for? It stands for 'False Evidence Appearing Real.' It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives. -- Gary Busey
The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic. -- Anais Nin

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