The closest thing I've had to an assembly line job is working at Gallery 37's photography program. It was the summer session of 2009. We had to go out and take pictures of Chicago, for some committee we knew nothing about and knew nothing about us. From obvious things like the lions in front of the Field Museum to trying to find the right neighborhood shots that brought the city to life. The committee's preferences seemed to be always frustratingly vague.
After taking the pictures, we developed them in an old fashioned darkroom, a fairly painstaking process full of trail and error. It could take an hour day's work to attempt to develop one picture properly. Then at the end of the year, we chose from hundreds of photos to a few dozen.
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