Plenty of black-and-white programming continued through the 1980s. But, watching sitcoms like All in The Family, with its loaded racial politics, in full colour, felt more real.
I didn’t get my own TV until I was a PhD student in the mid-1990s. By that point, digital cameras had started to appear, but punk friends stood their ground with film for the colour.
An ex-girlfriend became so obsessed with producing retro imagery that she bought used Soviet Zenit cameras and entered vintage photography contests in Austria and Turkey, which she won.
For her, black-and-white shooting wasn’t the past. It was all about imprecise, dreamy colours, recalling an era she never knew as an adult. Digital was soulless and technocratic, like CDs.
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