Close-up portrait of a young man in a dim domestic interior, 1970s — warm tungsten light from a single lamp catching one side of his face, the other side falling into shadow, visible film grain, slightly overexposed highlights on his forehead, era-correct color cast of early Kodachrome stock
Close-up portrait of a young man in a dim domestic interior, 1970s — warm tungsten light from a single lamp catching one side of his face, the other side falling into shadow, visible film grain, slightly overexposed highlights on his forehead, era-correct color cast of early Kodachrome stock
— Archive — Decade One

1970s

The earliest photographs in the record. Film stock, ambient light, whatever was in the room. Nothing removed, nothing corrected.

Survival is the only selection that happened here.

Continue to the 1980s

Grain, contrast shifts, and color drift are the film stock speaking. The 1980s begin with different light and a different camera.

1970 – 1979