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A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston
Hartmann Single Black: A Procedure For Printing Scanned 35mm Black-and-White Negatives
‚ Part II‚  
         Nicholas Hartmann, who earned a PhD in archaeology and for the last twenty years has worked as a technical and scientific translator, has been a photographer for most of his life. He's the son of the late Erich Hartmann, a longtime member and past president of Magnum Photos. By inclination and heritage, Nick‚ who grew up thinking it was normal for people like Inge Morath and Elliott Erwitt to come to the house for dinner‚ practices a fairly severe form of what might be called "the Magnum style": 35mm black-and-white photography, typically with a rangefinder camera and a 50mm lens.
Milwaukee (N. Broadway), photograph‚© 2000 Nicholas Hartmann
MJ:It seems evident that working out the details of your single-black printing procedure on your own was important as you figured all this...

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