Thinking Positively about Negatives

Fresh from its geektastic visual survey of vintage computers, Tucson’s Etherton Gallery accentuates the positive with a project that celebrates the negative. The gallery has published a portfolio by photographer and Life magazine editor, John Loengard, who captured eerie yet elegant photos of iconic 19th- and 20th-century negatives. Celebrating the Negative includes a shot of gloved hands gingerly holding Alexander Gardner‘s 1863 portrait of Abraham Lincoln emulsion side up over a light box and another