The Shirley Card wasn’t harmless. It was the industry standard that decided white skin was ‘correct,’ and everybody else was a ‘color problem’ to be fixed. Cameras weren’t built to see us. They were built to erase us to lighten, flatten, distort, and call it accuracy. That wasn’t bad technology. That was hierarchy baked into the image #kodak #photography #washedout #historytok #fyp | Ashley Truth