Alumni Magazine - Spring 2008 - (Page 16) >>>INFOCUS Memories in Black and White By Kimberly Link-Wills Bob Bland witnessed life at Tech through a viewfinder. Since 1961, the year he graduated with an industrial management degree, Bland has kept the hundreds of contact sheets and negatives from his days as a student photographer neatly stacked in boxes in a storage unit. Back in those days, Bland would take pictures of campus scenes, then show the contact sheets to Bob Wallace, editor of the Georgia Tech Alumnus and adviser to student publications. Wallace would pay $2 for each shot he liked. Bland would head to a darkroom on campus to produce the selected prints. Wallace and the Alumnus are gone, as are most darkrooms. The ALUMNI MAGAZINE staff recently sat down with Bland, dusted off the loops used before the digital age and selected some photographs to share in the publication. This time Bland went home, scanned the negatives and downloaded digital images onto a CD. Things also have changed on the Georgia Tech campus. Bland, who took photographs for the Alumnus, Blueprint, Technique and Rambler throughout his student career, enjoyed documenting the organized chaos that was registration. “You drew a card with your registration time. They wouldn’t let you in before that time. You went into the gym. At the back was a large board that was only used for registration. You had to check what was available on the board. If a class was >>> 16 Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine • Spring 2008
For optimal viewing of this digital publication, please enable JavaScript and then refresh the page. If you would like to try to load the digital publication without using Flash Player detection, please click here.