Here is a wonderful interview with a top B&W darkroom printer, Robin Bell. In addition, the second link goes to a Photography Online (YouTube channel) show from last year that includes 3 relevant segments: excerpts from the same interview; an 11-minute segment further on that shows Bell making a print from a photojournalist's negative -- no cards for burning, only his hands, and no timer! He makes an 11x14 that he's pleased with on the second try. Not too shabby. (He has a book of images he printed, but $$.) Finally, a segment with the photographer who made the image, speaking about the circumstances of making the photograph, which fills out the picture, so to speak.
I think the printing demo will encourage and inspire many new to the darkroom, and as one less new (I started in 1968), I still found it intriguingly elegant, while recognizing that not every negative is made to behave nearly so easily.
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(There's also a link to his website here.)
See him in action printing the taxi driver here - [
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