Digital BW, The Print

> >...and certainly no one exists that can
> > say that they
> > have devoted a full artistic career to the use of digital imagery.
>
> Well, hum.  I've been involved in "digital imagery" since the mid
> 70's, and
> I'm 44...and certainly have been using digital imagery for my
> full artistic
> career.  Now, that doesn't mean I've done nothing BUT digital, but I don't
> know that what you say is entirely true.
>
> Austin

Austin;

You may be right - I don't know how long a career really is but I had people
like DeCarava, Steglitz, Cunningham and Alavrez Bravo (he just turned 100 by
the way) in mind.

I started (with digital images) nearly a decade after you did but in the
last fifteen years it seems that the potential of the medium has changed so
much that with the exception of the "pixel" there is little that is the same
today. With the artist's I mentioned above it seems that the fundamental
possibilities of the medium were rather stable throughout long periods,
allowing them to create work that reflects a deep understanding of the
expressive potential of photography. I am not saying that photography did
not change or improve, but rather that it's possible to track longer periods
of artistic engagement. Would this list (I mean a group of people serious
about finely printed monochrome digital images) exist even ten years ago?

My comments were not meant to agitate or aggravate, only to say that the
scale of time is a critical component for acceptance.

Wendel