Open Thread

I went through this period once where I decided to explore all of the creative things I used to like that fell by the wayside when I started working in corporate life. I took video making at NYU which was a blast. But also I took photography at the School of Visual Arts. The thing that I really loved about that was the darkroom. I loved editing photos and developing them was a really creative process. It was really fun. It was fun to see the images gradually develop in the chemicals too….

I understand, denton. I was just baiting you.

You’re right, it may have been really interesting B&W photos and most likely excellent darkroom work.

L, I think they killed all his gay friends 🙂

dibs, here’s the thing. Today everyone’s running around with a lil’ digital camera, sexting, taking dick pix and putting them on CL, uploading to nude Flickr groups, and so on.

Let’s say prior to 1980 or so, if you were interested in photography, you had to do some work. And if you were shooting nudes, straight or gay, it meant you were doing your own darkroom work as well as investing the time needed to get the technical part right. These probably dated back to the 1950s. There’s a limited number of people who could be doing this, compared to today.

So dibs don’t get all crazy, it’s not the fact that this person’s subject was gay boys, I would be just as excited if it was a series of pix documenting the building of 40 Wall Street.

Of course I have no idea if the work was good or not since I didn’t get to see it. In fact maybe it wasn’t worth anything. But I hate when some potentially interesting work is destroyed just like that.

My brother sells stuff on ebay. He’s made a lot of money buying and selling estate collections of gay photography, and even more selling estate collections of gay pornography.