Tuesday 22 November 2011

Reasons To Go 0.6 (Part Two)


She was tired of not being taken seriously.  Take today.  When asked to suggest the criteria for selecting prospective students, she stated her plan accordingly: up-front as ever and with her usual temerity. Would-be photographers must place their portfolios in the corner of the studio before entering the darkroom.  When she began playing 'Like a Rolling Stone' the students should move - as best they could - under the warm-red glow of the safety lights.  The institution has 26 hand-held developing tanks; any candidate left standing but not embracing the aforesaid equipment when the music stopped would be immediately eliminated and told to go home (not forgetting to claim previously discarded portfolio en route).  A flawless plan, and surely no more arbitrary than the current system of offering a place to anyone who might name a photographer, alive or dead, operating since 1839. Moreover, at least her way - the Developing-Tank Way - would ensure the programme meet its annual target number.  The original method had never guaranteed this.

So, why was her scheme not unanimously endorsed and adopted?


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