A thin piece of metal inserted into the back of a Hasselblad or a 4 × 5 to prevent light from hitting the film, the dark slide is rapidly--and sadly--becoming a thing of the past. Costing mere pennies to manufacture, lost or prematurely pulled dark slides were the source of great angst to even the world's best photographers.

Read Matt's Washington Post cover story on his life--from the White House to weddings.

Browse through the latest issue of our new magazine.

• The Dark Slide RSS

• It fig-ures
• Double the fun
• Evangelos Papadacos, Ace of the Airways
• From one opera house to another
• Family ties
• A tale of two cities
• A bottle of red...
• Rocky Mountain High
• A Bridge Too Far
• The Ballad of Baby Doe
• Love-40
• Singing in the Rain
• Par-tea!!
• Hot, hot, hot
• No Barbecues for Old Men, part two
• No Barbecues for Old Men, part one
• Pomp and Circumstance
• A smile
• The Constant Gardener
• On the Street Where You Live
• Like a gambler's lucky streak
• Back to the future
• From the "Sometimes, The Best Pictures Are Three Feet From Your Front Door" Dep't.
• Evermay, times two
• Hair trigger
• Bedhead
• 46 degrees and raining...ha!
• The art of the end run
• Back in the saddle
• A 'storybook ending' for them, a new beginning for us
• The Rites of Spring

• August 2008 (3)
• July 2008 (6)
• June 2008 (5)
• May 2008 (6)
• April 2008 (11)