Photography
Griffiths, Philip Jones. (5 of 9). Oral History of British Photography
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Type
sound
Duration
00:31:34
Shelf mark
C459/143
Subjects
Photography
Recording date
2001
Recording locations
Phaidon publishers office, London, United Kingdom
Interviewees
Griffiths, Philip Jones, 1936- (speaker, male)
Interviewers
Read, Shirley, (speaker, female)
Abstract
Part 5. Description of travelling gear. Importance of not looking like a soldier or CIA man and of getting on with everyone. Information about Philip Jones Griffiths's (PJG) equipment and technical problems. Access to darkroom, processing colour and the problems of cooling water and keeping cockroaches from eating the film emulsion. Flew to Singapore to renew equipment but didn't lose any till fired on by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Problems with film. Importance of doing his own printing, the need to convert from colour to b&w.
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