Mexico City - 1969

In this century I have come to accept Artificial Intelligence even though I did write this blog.

Artificial Intelligence My Take 

I adore AI when it involves videos featuring cats. Then there is this. Today, like in past weeks I have been going through my negative files involving my Rosemary when we lived on Calle Herodoto in Mexico City in 1969. I have been placing here in my blogs photographs that I took of her nude (but cropped to pass community standards). Today I found more of these tight portraits I took of her. One negative was next to another one that showed me taking my photograph in front of a mirror with Rosemary behind me.

I like the randomness of what shooting with film in the 20^th century involved when you were almost broke. You took every frame in those 36-exposure rolls of b+w film. In 1969 I did not yet have a darkroom so I had the film processed at a lab on Avenida Madero. Because of the expense few of these negatives where ever printed as contact sheets or any of the pictures printed as photographs. Only now in this century equipped with a good Epson scanner I can bring those pictures to the “light of day”.

That brings me to that other useful (when not fully trusted) feature of AI. I placed in Google – light of day, origin of expression.

And of course this is the first time I have seen these two negs enlarged. This means, Borges style, that this is my first time seeing those photographs even though I saw them through the viewfinder. From the negative edge I now know that I was using Ilford HP5.

As for the etymological origin of random: The word "random" originated in the 14th century from the Old French word "randon", meaning "impetuosity, speed, or force". It stems from the Old French verb randir ("to gallop"), which is rooted in Germanic terms for running or flowing, such as rann. Originally, "at random" implied acting with great speed or without control.