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Smokers' Series by Elliot Goldstein Roaming the streets of Los Angeles and New York recently, photographer Elliot Goldstein captured smokers "nursing at their poison."  Afterwards, he camped out in the darkroom, using creative developing and printing techniques to bring out new levels of expression in his images. Article rating: 9.69

After receiving my grandmother's old Nikon a year and a half ago I have been teaching myself black and white photography. This series is a study and illustration of smokers nursing at their poison. It includes New York and Los Angeles smokers, some of whom I know, and others, strangers captured in the act. A variety of film and paper were used here, and no digital manipulation was employed. "SMOKERS" was a long and creative process, both in the field, behind the camera, with even more time spent daily at an enlarger in the darkroom. In the printing process, I was able to extend the images' depth and expression beyond what I pre-visualized and saw in the camera's viewfinder, especially through creative uses of chemicals and diffused light. Throwing the final prints on a flatbed scanner, to view an 11x14 fiber print as a 72dpi jpg does seem to nullify the darkroom experience, but now people may actually see it.

-Elliot Goldstein 2006

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