Fascinating article about how Kodak developed film stock to photograph only white skin, rendering black people nearly invisible. And, conversely (or maybe similarly), how Polaroid designed a camera that "boosted" light exposure exactly enough to capture black skin so that South Africa's apartheid regime could photograph blacks for the passbooks used to control their movement. Talk about technologies of race.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jan/25/racism-colour-photography-exhibition
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