The Great Expectations of Judy Brown
In 1964 while going to Mexico City College I feel for a short blonde called Judy Brown. She was coldish but did pose for some photographs. In those days Agfa made a very fast film called Isopan Record. I decided I would photograph her with the light of match. It worked out well. The school year ended and I never saw Brown again.
There is something about photography that somehow it allows one (me) to relive past moments of my life. I can scan Brown negatives (I have them to this day) and write a couple of blogs showing the match photographs.
But even better I can try the technique many years later and even modify the technique. In the last few weeks I have been writing blogs that feature photographs that I took of Rosemary in Mexico City in 1969. She was nude and I cropped for my sense of family good taste.
I found (I
had forgotten) three shotsm where unlike Brown, she is holding a candle. Because
this century has the bonus of me being able to combine the technology of the
last century (the b+w negs I took of Rosemary)
with the technique of putting one negative on top of the other and then
scanning them with my Epson V700. I call these scanner negative sandwiches
without mayonnaise. The trick is to pick negs from the same session.
I believe that I have done well with the scans here. But I cannot escape that feeling when I look at the scans on my monitor that I am back to Mexico City 1969 in our little apartment on Calle Herodoto. This is when Rosemary would serve me fine meals and she had nothing on her plate. I was too stupid to realize that we had little money so she was only splurging on me. And how would I have known that 57 years later I would be writing this blog and using those negatives. They are in perfect condition since I always overwashed my negatives for archival permanence.
