darkroom

American

[dahrk-room, -room] / ˈdɑrkˌrum, -ˌrʊm /

noun

Photography.

a room in which film or the like is made, handled, or developed and from which the actinic rays of light are excluded.

darkroom British

/ ˈdɑːkˌruːm, -ˌrʊm /

noun

a room in which photographs are processed in darkness or safe light

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Etymology

Origin of darkroom

First recorded in 1835–45; dark + room

Example Sentences

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His Regen show, through March 1, also features short video works and the abstractions of camera-less images he considers “pure photography,” created in the darkroom by shining light directly onto photosensitive paper.

From Los Angeles Times

"There was a darkroom in the vicarage and I saw one of the older boys printing a photograph and I just knew that was going to be my life, really," he explains.

From BBC

She first discovered photography in a darkroom at Orange Coast College before completing her degree at UCLA.

From Los Angeles Times

With a mobile darkroom in her car’s trunk, she can develop the plates on-site, allowing subjects to see their ethereal black-and-white image within minutes.

From Los Angeles Times

That impulse translated into nights developing stock in a makeshift darkroom Lanthimos rigged in his Budapest apartment’s bathroom.

From Los Angeles Times

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