cleanroom consumables, hewas forced to
stand by andwatch how this accumulated
know-howwas disregarded by his colleagues
and not even discussedwhen it came to the
crux. In hindsight, however, the new procu-
rement strategy did not lead to any improve-
ment of Infineon‘s general situation.
In 2007, one year before his 70th birthday,
Labuda revised the spectrum of test methods
for precision cleaningwipers. In away, this
was a conclusion of his life‘s work in techno-
logy.
For this purpose, it became necessary to add
a fourthmethod to the three existing Labuda
test methods. This fourthmethod ismeant to
shed light on the necessary cleaning time of a
wiping cleaning procedure, dependent on the
construction of thewiper. This revisionwas
then published as Clear & Clean - Test Me-
thods for CleaningWipers and Papers Used in
Cleanrooms (24).
AWorldof Images - TheOther Side of
Labuda
An entirely different aspect of Labudawhich,
however, plays a dominant role in his biogra-
phy is his creativework as a photographer,
graphic artist and at times also as a sculptor.
Being the son of the passionate animal painter
Gerhard Labuda (15), he came into contact
with visual arts early on andwas given lessons
in free hand drawing by his father. However,
hewasmore interested in photography. Until
1971, Win Labuda took some intriguing pho-
tographs during trips to Poland, North Africa,
Italy and Spain; however, it seems he did not
deem them to be interesting enough to be
published.
But starting in 1968, he showed an increased
interest in photography. This became apparent
when he joined the Royal Photographic Society
in London, acquired a used Linhof large for-
mat camera and set up a darkroom in an old
bakery on Solingen‘sWupperstrasse. Star-
ting in 1971, when hemoved toMurnau on
Lake Staffel, Labuda began to produce photo
screenprints (18) based on his own black-and-
white negatives. He established a screenprint
workshop on Seewaldweg in Seehausen solely
for this purpose. For twenty-five years, he
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Fig. 15
„German shepherd“, pen drawing byWin
Labuda‘s father Gerhard, ca. 1935
Fig. 16
Yuko Labuda accompanies her husband on
his photographic expeditions, not without carrying
weight
