Former manager of Kodak Research Studios Earl Kage reflects on this period of research: “My little department became quite fat with chocolate, because what was in the front of the camera was consumed at the end of the shoot.” Asked about the fact that this was all happening against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, he adds, “It is fascinating that this has never been said before, because it was never Black flesh that was addressed as a serious problem that I knew of at the time.”

Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, loc. 50101