Photography is racist

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How Photography Was Optimized for White Skin Color

As Concordia professor Lorna Roth writes, “Film chemistry, photo lab procedures, video screen colour balancing practices, and digital cameras in general were originally developed with a global assumption of ‘Whiteness.’”

Until very recently, if you got a roll of film printed in a photo lab, it was very, very likely that the shots were calibrated against a photo of a caucasian woman wearing black and white on a grey background...
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I hate framing history with the view point of today

It'll leave you disappointed and well, missing the point of the past
 
Jesus fucking christ... There is a reason it's called "white balance" and it has nothing to do with anyone's fucking skin color.
 
if film favors white why does everyone talk about how good the blacks are on their tv
 
I only wonder why all the competing cameras and films from Africa didn't get any traction anywhere. Must be a racist conspiracy!
 
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