backroom

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The Deo Gratias studio, still in the same place where it was founded just over 100 years ago, has stacks of old pictures and glass plates in its darkrooms, she says.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2023

Weegee — the moniker was inspired either by Ouija boards or “squeegee boys” working in newspaper darkrooms — gave photojournalism a household name at a time when most of its practitioners were anonymous.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2018

Red light has insufficient photon energy to expose most black-and-white film, and it is thus used to illuminate darkrooms where such film is developed.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

To get pictures like that, Mr. Regan was known for keeping workaholic hours, never taking vacations and passing a good part of his life alone in darkrooms.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2012

Recently, they have started using news cars equipped with darkrooms and radio transmission units that can flash pictures from the scene of a story to the home office.

From Time Magazine Archive