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A new magazine about the practice, culture, tools, and continuing life of film photography.
In 1950, at the California School of Fine Arts, Minor White proposed an innovative photography curriculum that was never fully realized. Seventy-six years later, Grainpress revisits the outline to ask what it can still teach photographers today.
Film feels more expensive than ever—but is it? We compare Tri-X prices in 1977, 2005 and 2026, plus the per-frame cost of film versus digital. Whether cost makes the photographer more thoughtful or constrained in an open question, and one we explore here.