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Out of the [darkroom] closet

September 26, 2012 · by minacarson | in Uncategorized | tagged Elsa Dorfman, Elsa's Housebook, Mina Carson, photography | Leave a comment

In 1983, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, somewhere between chapters two and three of my dissertation, I stalled. I bought a bike and took rides around Fresh Pond. I bought a steel stringed guitar and got calluses learning finger style. And I got a key to the unused darkroom in the basement of Lehman Hall. I bought […]

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