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Garcia is holding a 4-by-6-inch photo of an ivory-faced brunette wearing a lacy, white, off-the-shoulders top. She has red lipstick and silver earrings, and the photo appears to have been taken sometime in the 1970s or '80s.... For many years, this "Shirley" card -- named for the original model, who was an employee of Kodak -- was used by photo labs to calibrate skin tones, shadows and light during the printing process.... For decades, Kodak's Shirley cards featured only white models.... In 1978, the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard famously refused to use Kodak film to shoot in Mozambique because he declared the film was racist.
-- Mandalit del Barco. "How Kodak's Shirley Cards Set Photography's Skin-Tone Standard" NPR. (November 13, 2014). http://www.npr.org/2014/11/13/363517842/for-decades-kodak-s-shirley-cards-set-photography-s-skin-tone-standard
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