Developing Talent
Anthony Kersting, architectural photographer, describes how his passion for buildings was fuelled by a Middle Eastern posting during the War
In 1928 when I was in my early teens, I purchased my first camera – a 2A Box Brownie – and cycled to Hampton Court to expose my film on the Wren architecture which, even at that early age, I enjoyed. My father taught me how to develop the film, using a Kodak daylight developing tank and I printed it on daylight self-toning paper, using printing frames placed in the garden: the print was inspected from time to time until it was dark enough and then fixed in hypo, the whole process taking about half an hour. I next experimented with printing on gaslight, then bromide paper, both of which had to be used in the dark.
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