Analog media when you can’t touch your face

Introducing P30 I took this picture of DeRoy Auditorium with an old Yashica camera that belonged to my partner Ed’s grandfather. I’m pretty sure it’s older than I am. I developed and printed the roll in a friend’s darkroom, and if you look closely you can see grains and a tiny scratch near the middle….

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Greetings and welcome

Thanks for visiting! I’m a faculty member in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, an Italianist, a film scholar, and an environmental humanist. I am currently researching analog media, specifically celluloid filmstock, and am interested in the way analog (vinyl, board games, typewriters, Polaroid)…

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