Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
American
Julian Wasser started his career in photography in the Washington DC bureau of the Associated Press where he met and accompanied the famous news photographer Weegee – who would become a lasting influence on him. In the mid-60s Wasser moved to Los Angeles as a contract photographer for TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE magazines and becoming internationally known as the go to guy for getting candid but memorably composed photographs. (His iconic images of Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston; Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz; and a young Jodie Foster are already classics.)
In 1968 TIME Magazine assigned Wasser to go to the home of the young writer Joan Didion whose book Slouching Towards Bethlehem was becoming a literary sensation. “I’d read her fiction,” said Wasser. “and she didn’t miss a thing. She was such a heavyweight person.”
Wasser shot Didion at her rented house on Franklin Avenue in Hollywood, where she lived with her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, and their daughter, Quintana Roo. “It was a nice, cozy house,” Wasser remembers. “And she was a very easy person to talk to. No Hollywood affectations.”
They started the shoot inside the house, and then moved outside where Wasser posed Didion with her recently acquired yellow Corvette Stingray. Didion has said that the photograph with Quintana Roo on her lap was her favorite, but the shots with the Stingray and the indoor three-quarter portrait became such icons of style that they inspired the fashion house Celine to do a campaign with the model Daria Werbowy posing in the window of a car just like Didion.
For our project show – Didion by Wasser – the gallery will be exhibiting selected published images as well as outtakes and never before seen contact sheets of Didion that with their repetitive variations take on a Warholian aura.(Biography provided by Danziger Gallery)
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Artist: Julian Wasser
Joan Didion, Hollywood, 1968 (22-2) Three Quarters Portrait
By Julian Wasser
Located in New York, NY
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Joan Didion by Julian Wasser
Silver gelatin print
Image Size: 11 x 8 inches
Frame Size: 17 x 14 x 2 inches
Edition 7 of 15
Signed on verso by Julian Wasser
Please note the frame is in good condition. The print is in mint condition.
Artist Biography -
Julian Wasser started his career in photography in the Washington DC bureau of the Associated Press where he met and accompanied the famous news photographer Weegee – who would become a lasting influence on him. In the mid-60s Wasser moved to Los Angeles as a contract photographer for TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE magazines and becoming internationally known as the go to guy for getting candid but memorably composed photographs. (His iconic images of Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston; Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz...
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1960s Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp playing chess during Duchamp's Pasadena Art Museum
By Julian Wasser
Located in New York, NY
Listing is for an unframed print and includes free shipping to the continental US and 14-day return policy.
Julian Wasser
Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp pl...
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1960s Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Joan Didion, Hollywood, 1968 (Frame 33a.)
By Julian Wasser
Located in New York, NY
This is a limited edition 16 x 20 inch print of Joan Didion by photographer Julian Wasser shot for her iconic interview with TIME in 1968.
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Joan Didion by Julian Wasser
Gelatin Silver Print
Paper Size: 16 x 20 inches
Image Size: 11.5 x 17.5 inches
Edition 9 of 15
Signed and on the back by Julian Wasser and editioned on adhesive certificate
History Behind the Photograph -
Julian Wasser started his career in photography in the Washington DC bureau of the Associated Press where he met and accompanied the famous news photographer Weegee – who would become a lasting influence on him. In the mid-60s Wasser moved to Los Angeles as a contract photographer for TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE magazines and becoming internationally known as the go to guy for getting candid but memorably composed photographs. (His iconic images of Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston; Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz...
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1960s Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Joan Didion, 1968
By Julian Wasser
Located in New York, NY
Joan Didion photographed by Julian Wasser for TIME magazine in 1968. This is a 20 x 24 inch platinum print made in 2022 at Weldon Labs in Los Angeles made ...
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1960s Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Joan Didion, Hollywood, 1968 (Frame 11a.)
By Julian Wasser
Located in New York, NY
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Joan Didion by Julian Wasser
16 x 20 inch gelatin silver print
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1960s Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Joan and Quintana Roo (Frame 27a.)
By Julian Wasser
Located in New York, NY
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Joan Didion by Julian Wasser
20 x 16 inch gelatin silver print
Edition 3 of 15
Signed on verso by Julian Wasser
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Description -
Julian Wasser started his career in photography in the Washington DC bureau of the Associated Press where he met and accompanied the famous news photographer Weegee – who would become a lasting influence on him. In the mid-60s Wasser moved to Los Angeles as a contract photographer for TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE magazines and becoming internationally known as the go to guy for getting candid but memorably composed photographs. (His iconic images of Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston; Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz; and a young Jodie Foster are already classics.)
In 1968 TIME Magazine assigned Wasser to go to the home of the young writer Joan Didion whose book Slouching Towards Bethlehem was becoming a literary sensation. “I’d read her fiction,” said Wasser. “and she didn’t miss a thing. She was such a heavyweight person.”
Wasser shot Didion at her rented house on Franklin Avenue in Hollywood, where she lived with her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, and their daughter, Quintana Roo. “It was a nice, cozy house,” Wasser remembers. “And she was a very easy person to talk to...
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1960s Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Farrah Fawcett writing in her journal, 1976
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Farrah Fawcett writing in her journal, 1976, PEOPLE
This photo of Farrah in her mobile home was taken during her lunch hour. Aaron Spelling, the producer of "Charlie's Angel's", had...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Jayne Mansfield at the Whisky a Go-Go, 1964
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Jayne Mansfield at the Whisky a Go-Go in 1964 for LIFE Magazine.
Silver Gelatin Print
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
The Jackson Five, 1971
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
The Jackson Five, 1971, TIME
Photographed at the Jackson Family Home in Beverly Hills.
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition Size: 15
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston by the pool, 1974
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
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After starting his career at the age of 14 as a cop...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Sunset Strip at Night, 1963
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
This photo of Sunset Boulevard captures a time when gas was 28 cents a gallon and clubs like The Trocadero, The Mocambo, The Brown Derby, and The Roman...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Toni Basil and Dean Stockwell
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Dancer, Toni Basil shown with actor Dean Stockwell.
Silver Gelatin Print
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Bunny and Michael at the Whisky A Go-Go
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Bunny and Michael at the Whisky A Go-Go
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
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After star...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
The Rolling Stones, 1965
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
The Rolling Stones, 1965, TIME
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Liz Taylor at the Oscars, 1961
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Liz Taylor at the Oscars, 1961, PARIS MATCH
This photograph was taken at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on the night Elizabeth Taylor won her first Acad...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Farrah Fawcett with Butterfly Mirror, 1976
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Farrah Fawcett with Butterfly Mirror, 1976, PEOPLE
Farrah Fawcett on the set of "Charlie's Angels" getting her hair and makeup done.
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Keith Moon, 1966
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Keith Moon, 1966, TIME
Keith Moon, English drummer from the rock band, the Who, shares a limo with a girl holding a bottle of Dom Perignon. Taken outside o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Sonny and Cher, 1964
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Sonny and Cher, 1964
Silver Gelatin Print
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Iggy Pop, 1973
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Iggy Pop being whipped by Ron Asheton, 1973, TIME
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Robert F. Kennedy, Ambassador Hotel, 1968
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Robert F. Kennedy, Ambassador Hotel, 1968, LIFE
Photo of Bobby Kennedy giving his final victory speech in the California Democratic presidential prim...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe at the Golden Globes in the Beverly Hilton Hotel, 1962
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Marilyn Monroe, 1962, UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Marilyn Monroe photographed at the Golden Globes in the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Silver Gelatin Print
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston, 1971
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston, 1971, STERN
Photographed at Nicholson's house on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles.
Silver Gelatin Print
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Marcel Duchamp with his Bicycle Wheel, 1963
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Marcel Duchamp with his bicycle wheel, 1963
Silver Gelatin Print
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Steve McQueen, 1964
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Steve McQueen, 1964
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Steve McQueen with light
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
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After starting his career at the age of 14 as a cop...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe on the set of "Some Like It Hot", 1959
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Marilyn Monroe on the set of "Some Like It Hot", 1959
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Gregg Allman and Cher, mid 1970's
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Gregg Allman and Cher, mid 1970's
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
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Artist Bio:
After starting hi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Chuckie Star, 1974
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Chuckie Star, 1974, TIME
Star became the consummate LA party kid who was a sought after guest at parties. When the scene died out, he moved on along with everyone else. Star's shoes...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
The Beatles, 1965
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
The Beatles, 1965, TIME
Photographed at the Saville Theater in London, The Beatles had just received member of the British Empire medals from The Queen at Buckingham Palace.
Silver...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Central Park South in Winter
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
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After starting his career at the age of 14 as a copy...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood, 1962
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, 1962, TIME
Photographed at the Academy Awards in Santa Monica. Wood and Beatty played star-crossed lovers in the 1961 film "Splendor in the Grass...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Natalie Wood at The Daisy, 1964
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Natalie Wood, 1964, Los Angeles Magazine
The Daisy, an exclusive nightclub on Rodeo Drive, was the place to be seen in the 60s. Here is Natalie Wood arri...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Tail O' the Pup Hotdog Stand, Los Angeles, 1963
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Tail O' the Pup, 1963
Near to where the Beverly Center stands today was the popular Tail 'O the Pup hot dog stand with its weiner-shaped building and po...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Two Girls in Hollywood at Lee Drugs, 1961
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Women at Lee Drugstore counter, 1961, ESCAPADE
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
Available sizes:
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Artist Bio:
Afte...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Brigitte Bardot in Westwood for Viva Maria!, 1965
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Brigitte Bardot, 1965, TIME
This photo was taken at the premiere of Louis Malle's French Film "VIVA MARIA!" at the Bruin Theatre in Westwood.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Marcel Duchamp Playing Chess with Eve Babitz, 1963
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz, 1963, TIME
Walter Hopps, the curator of Duchamp's landmark retrospective at The Pasadena Art Museum, helped direct this shot...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston, 1971
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston, 1971, STERN
Photographed at Nicholson's house on Mulholland drive in Los Angeles.
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition si...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Woman with T-Bird at Paramount Pictures Studio, 1962
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Woman with T-Bird at Paramount Pictures Studio, 1962, ESCAPADE
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
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