darkroom
noun
dark·room
ˈdärk-ˌrüm 
-ˌru̇m
: a room with no light or with a safelight for developing light-sensitive photographic materials
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The same antibodies that have long immunized us against darkroom tricks—our skepticism, common sense, and reliance on social verification—are protecting us from being duped by deepfakes.
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Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
During a total solar eclipse the lighting grows decidedly eerie—equal parts post-apocalyptic (as if a UFO were overtaking our local star) and photographic (like an underexposed print viewed in a darkroom).
—Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2023
When the contemporary artist Mariah Robertson first started playing around in her darkroom with light-sensitive paper, hand-applying chemicals and trying out different exposure techniques, a whole new world opened up.
—Grace Edquist, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023
Technology brings changes to photojournalism During the 1970s and 1980s, each photographer had his or her own darkroom in the downtown newsroom at 1801 Superior Avenue.
—Julie Washington, cleveland, 29 July 2023
Shore was a city boy, the only child of prosperous and culture-loving parents on the Upper East Side, and a prodigy, introduced to darkroom technique at the age of six.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
Breuer added a studio and a small apartment with a darkroom to the house in the 1960s, to encourage Tamas’s interest in photography.
—Helen Stoilas, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
The photographer is known for in-camera capture; that means the layers, reflections, and ghostly appearances in his images reflect real-world occurrences, not darkroom tricks.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
Andrew and his friends could be found in the downstairs workshop, making stop-motion animations, while upstairs his sister and her classmates wrote musicals, and in the five-by-five-foot darkroom their father labored over baths of chemicals.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 9 Aug. 2023
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Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
During a total solar eclipse the lighting grows decidedly eerie—equal parts post-apocalyptic (as if a UFO were overtaking our local star) and photographic (like an underexposed print viewed in a darkroom).
—Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2023
When the contemporary artist Mariah Robertson first started playing around in her darkroom with light-sensitive paper, hand-applying chemicals and trying out different exposure techniques, a whole new world opened up.
—Grace Edquist, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023
Technology brings changes to photojournalism During the 1970s and 1980s, each photographer had his or her own darkroom in the downtown newsroom at 1801 Superior Avenue.
—Julie Washington, cleveland, 29 July 2023
Shore was a city boy, the only child of prosperous and culture-loving parents on the Upper East Side, and a prodigy, introduced to darkroom technique at the age of six.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
Breuer added a studio and a small apartment with a darkroom to the house in the 1960s, to encourage Tamas’s interest in photography.
—Helen Stoilas, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
The photographer is known for in-camera capture; that means the layers, reflections, and ghostly appearances in his images reflect real-world occurrences, not darkroom tricks.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
Andrew and his friends could be found in the downstairs workshop, making stop-motion animations, while upstairs his sister and her classmates wrote musicals, and in the five-by-five-foot darkroom their father labored over baths of chemicals.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 9 Aug. 2023
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1841, in the meaning defined above
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darkroom
noun
dark·room
ˈdärk-ˌrüm
-ˌru̇m
: a lightproof room used in developing photographic materials (as film and prints)
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