Geraldine Lacks at age eleven (spring 1945; actual size approx. 2.2 x 2.3 in. (5.7 x 5.8 cm.)). Photo courtesy of Alex Buchman. This photo is part of a 3-by-4 composite proof of twelve small photos, two of which are almost completely hacked away. This is one of the twelve, shown here at full 300-dpi resolution. Moderately retouched to remove random white spots and emulsion smearing, particularly above Geraldine's head; desaturated to remove color artifacts. Note as before the ever-so-slight darkening of the vertical strip at left, an artifact introduced either during the shoot, or processing, or both.