A dying art photolaboratory printing: as cult images edited without photoshop.

And you wonder how the footage of the masters turned into iconic images printed? Pablo Inirio, master of the photo lab working for Magnum Photos editorial office in new York, personally worked on some of the most famous images of the photo Agency. Pictures with its markings, appearing on the Internet, give an idea of how much attention was paid to each image in a dark room to frame the master turned into a masterpiece.

Sarah Coleman from TheLiterateLens writes that in a small photo lab Inirio is full of such here is strewn with markings pictures. And among them there are many images that are among the most famous in the history of photography.

Above is the famous photograph of Dennis Stock, which depicts James Dean at times square in new York city in 1955. The test printout from the top demonstrates what work Inirio has done to make the photo as a result of which it is known to the audience. The lines and circles he marked the place in the frame that are subject to lightening and darkening; numbers scattered throughout the image are marked with different exposure time.

Coleman doubts that this kind of magic will persist in our digital age:

"Over the past fifteen years, almost every photographer I interviewed described the impressions of the first" magical " process of image development during chemical processing. It is worth asking whether the current young photographers can talk with the same admiration about how they calibrated their monitor for the first time."

For comparison, a portrait of Muhammad Ali, shot by Thomas hooker in 1966:

A portrait of photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, taken during the "March on Washington". Photo by Bob Enriques:

Portrait Of Audrey Hepburn. The photographer Dennis stock:

Back in 2009 on Twitter Magnum Photos there were two pictures, which, Inirio depicted in the work. The inscription reads: "Pablo Inirio-our printer in a dark room."

Inirio continues its business in an era of rapid changes in the industry. But it is unknown how long such painstaking art of processing will last in the age of digital photography.