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Jim Noel talks with Anthony Mournian, editor of the Photographers' Formulary newsletter, about his sixty years teaching career and his many years as a photographer.
He started teaching in 1951 in Nashville, Tennessee for the grand salary of $2235 a year. Ten years later he and his family came west to California where he took another teaching job. He's been in the San Diego area ever since.
Jim says he'll stick with film. He enjoys the older processes because he does everything by hand, and enjoys holding the results in his hands. The process of making the printed photograph gives him as much pleasure as composing the shot and exposing the film.
He's always had his own dark room. His first dark room, more than seventy years ago when he was in junior high school, was in a dirt basement behind a coal burning stove. He says it was dirty, but it was dark and that was all that was necessary.
This is Part one of a three part series.
Jim Noel talks with Anthony Mournian, editor of the Photographers' Formulary newsletter, about his sixty years teaching career and his many years as a photographer.
He started teaching in 1951 in Nashville, Tennessee for the grand salary of $2235 a year. Ten years later he and his family came west to California where he took another teaching job. He's been in the San Diego area ever since.
Jim says he'll stick with film. He enjoys the older processes because he does everything by hand, and enjoys holding the results in his hands. The process of making the printed photograph gives him as much pleasure as composing the shot and exposing the film.
He's always had his own dark room. His first dark room, more than seventy years ago when he was in junior high school, was in a dirt basement behind a coal burning stove. He says it was dirty, but it was dark and that was all that was necessary.
This is Part one of a three part series.
