Colorized or in black and white, Arnold Genthe’s 1914 photograph of Edna St. Vincent Millay with a magnolia tree is well known. Less well known, however, is that the original image itself is in color: an Autochrome transparency. An obvious reason is that it’s too dark.
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But see her now in the light.
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After he retired, Yousuf Karsh moved all the way south from Ottawa to Boston. I don’t know why, but let us wonder what might have happened if he had followed a meridian still farther — far enough, say, to sniff at the beaker that is the warm south, draw a tropic night’s darkness over himself, and become again what we all were before we were human.
Then
