Photochrome of a glacier, Grindelwald, Switzerland, c. 1890. © Rijksmuseum.
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Color film in the 1950s barely registered dark skin tones; Kodak had developed the product to measure images against the white skin of a model known as Shirley. The company eventually modified its film emulsion, responding to complaints from advertisers promoting wood furniture and chocolate.
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924
