Originally Posted by
Mark Sampson
Tin Can, "greased men"? I rather doubt it, perhaps he used some makeup sometimes. What Karsh often did was use orthochromatic film to darken men's skin tones, a very traditional technique in studio portraiture.
Kodak offered Tri-X Ortho 4163 film until the mid-1990s for just this purpose, and other manufacturers may have offered something similar.
And comparing Karsh against Arnold Newman, well... different philosophies, different approaches, different clients, different results.
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