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Joe Donna looks on his brightly lit inanimate subjects from beside the huge camera he salvaged from the old ACC graphics building.
ALPENA — Remember negatives? Well, these negatives are 16 by 20. So you know the camera’s big.
Alpena artist and art instructor Joe Donna procured and converted a roughly 1,000-pound process camera from the old Alpena Community College graphics building, which was torn down in 2009, Donna recalled.
“A process camera is a camera that they used to use, before computer technology, to enlarge things, to duplicate things, to make what they call half-tone screens, to do any sort of color separations,” Joe Donna said. “It was kind of like the workhorse of the commercial printshop, back in its day.”