Re:Shirley Cards
by lizknope on Monday November 15, 2021 @07:03AM
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Your body's visual processing system (eyes and brain) are the result of millions (maybe billions) of years of evolution.
Photography and digital sensors are less than 200 years old.
The film technology 50 years ago was not racist. The people who designed that film technology didn't care enough to put the effort into developing film technology that could discern multiple shades of darker skin tones. It is not direct racism like actively trying to take away a black person's right to vote. It is indirect racism of not caring enough about black people to try to make film record their skin tones better. Once the furniture and chocolate industry showed up with the money to have brown tones recorded better on film suddenly Kodak was interested.
Re:Shirley Cards
by Aloha on Monday November 15, 2021 @01:18PM
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It's not even that they didn't care. It likely never crossed their minds because of how segregated America and specifically Rochester was at that time.
Photography and digital sensors are less than 200 years old.
The film technology 50 years ago was not racist. The people who designed that film technology didn't care enough to put the effort into developing film technology that could discern multiple shades of darker skin tones. It is not direct racism like actively trying to take away a black person's right to vote. It is indirect racism of not caring enough about black people to try to make film record their skin tones better. Once the furniture and chocolate industry showed up with the money to have brown tones recorded better on film suddenly Kodak was interested.