Melvin Sokolsky (born 1933) is an American photographer and film director. Born in New York City in 1933, Sokolsky was raised on the Lower East Side.[1] He had no formal training in photography, but started to use his father's box camera at about the age of ten.[citation needed] Always analytical, he started to realize the role that emulsion played as he compared his own photographs with those his father had kept in albums through the years.[citation needed] "I could never make my photographs of Butch the dog look like the pearly finish of my father's prints, and it was then that I realized the importance of the emulsion of the day." ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Sokolsky