So, I started taking photos in the mid-1950s with my Mickey Mouse Camera, which took 120 film. I put a roll of film through it in the early 1980s and it still worked fine.
When I moved to Ann Arbor in the 1970s it was the first time in years that I didn’t have my own dark-room. I used to spend a lot of time in my dark-room where I learned how to use a variety of paper and film. Then in Ann Arbor I discovered Art World Institute of Creative Arts. When you took classes there you got to use the dark room. So I did. My previous experience of photographing models was using color, this would be black-and-white.
In camera intentional multiple-exposures was a technique that I learned. The above photos was one I did for class. The rest of the photos are from a class where we learned to photograph nude models. For every class we had to bring in prints and have them critiqued for various topics we were covering.
The above photo was an example of using the setting to show the model. Here the photo was a reflection of the model off of prints on the wall.
So, that’s how I briefly became part of the photography community in Ann Arbor in the 1970s.
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