"Major",
a giant statue of a bull located in the CCB Plaza on Corcoran Street in Durham, North Carolina,
was erected in 2007 and was designed by Leah Foushee and Michael Waller. The
spirit of fun radiated by the (one assumes) students riding the bull
leaps out of the print. The photo was taken in December of 2015 with a
Minolta X-570 35 mm SLR equipped with a 135 mm f/2.8 Minolta MD lens
on Ilford FP4+ film. The negative was enlarged optically with a
Beseler 23CIIXL enlarger and a 50 mm f/2.8 Schneider Componon-S lens on
Ilford Multigrade FB Classic Double Weight Fiber Base silver gelatin photo
paper. Processing was done archivally using Kodak chemistry, with a
final toning with Kodak Rapid Selenium Toner, treated with hypo clearing
agent, and washed in an archival washer.