The year is 2002. The glossy pages of Vogue and Rolling Stone still smell of ink and fixer. In the darkroom of Iconic Magazine , Marco Fontana, a 58-year-old master retoucher with hands stained by selenium toner, watches a cursor blink on a $12,000 CRT monitor.

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