Digital BW, The Print

Back in the 70's  I worshiped Weston. When I was working at the Center in 
Tucson I saw a series of portraits that Wynn Bullock did of him as he was 
dying of Parkinsons. They were so sad. Edward used the extremely toxic 
developer Pyro for his negatives and the equally nasty  Amidol for his prints. 
His hands turned black from using this stuff and it eventually killed him, 
destroyed his nervous system, long before he should have left this earth. 
Chemicals also eventually killed my teacher Todd Walker and put another of 
my teachers in the hospital with liver poisoning.  Todd named each of his 
tumors after the various processes that he specialized in. I don't look back on 
those times as the good ole days. I'm more than happy to do a little research 
on rips to live a little while longer.

John ( breathing clean air in my studio every day of the week)