The disappearance of darkness
Subtitle: photography at the end of the analog era
By: by Robert Burley
Contributors: Ryerson Image Centre (Toronto, Ont.)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; Ryerson Image Centre
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781616890957
Subjects: History; Exhibitions; Photographic film industry; Factories; Pictorial works; Architectural photography
Description: Over the past decade, photographer Robert Burley has travelled the world documenting the abandonment and destruction of film-based photography, namely, the factories where film was produced and the labs that developed it. Burley's atmospheric large-format photographs transport viewers to rarely seen sites where the alchemy of the photographic process was practiced over the last century. As both fine art and documentary, 'The Disappearance of Darkness' is an elegiac reflection on the resilience of traditional art forms in the digital era and a vital commemoration of a century-old industry that seems to have disappeared overnight.
Notes: Accompanies an exhibition presented by the Ryerson Image Centre in 2014 in Toronto and later in other places.

Includes bibliographical references.