usually any writing on the slide mount refers to medium or size, but look what i found in the files today! i wonder what REB meant to the person who wrote it...
when i undertook the study of light many many many moons ago, i was under the assumption that i would one day become a professional photographer. well, that didn't happen quite as i had anticipated & at some point i got dumped on old man archive's door. instead of taking photographs for my bread, i digitize pictures that have already been made: (mostly) anonymous photographers' documents of artworks that were produced by another person. one man's archive consists of thousands of images & i battle against time & decaying emulsions armed with only 2 sophisticated scanners, a wacom stylus, photoshop 2 & my own fastidious compulsions!
okay so let's recap: artist - makes drawing, sculpture, object, etc. at some point in the past. photographer - documents object at a date closer to the present (but still pretty far away) than the original fabrication. reb - scans 2D film object (that photographer had made of artist's rendering) into binary code, fixes up any temporal wear & tear & organizes files & objects appropriately. it's a boring, time consuming task - but somebody has to do it...
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