ABSTRACT
Although popular during photography’s first three decades, processes in which negative and positive are made inseparable were definitively superseded when detailed exposures on glass or film became possible. It is more difficult to determine an origin point for negatives exposed on film-on cellulose nitrate or cellulose acetate-but this innovation is usually dated to 1887 and ascribed to the work of an American named Hannibal Goodwin. Once again, that negative is one of 17 of the elevator girl shot by Frank that day, some of them showing her posing for the photographer and others featuring her at work, oblivious to his presence. It is a reminder that film negatives were made in several different sizes and proportions throughout the twentieth century, depending on the camera used and the needs of the photographer. Creative Photography in Arizona, along with a plastic bag of ashes.
