Digital BW, The Print

At 05:05 PM 2/27/2002 -0000, you wrote:
>Alan-
>
>I think you miss the point... I agree that whining is silly... This 
>is a real opportunity to tell the world how great digital printing 
>has become.
>
>Can a challenge be issued? To this clown? Is there a forum to debate 
>the issues? That will get wider understanding and acknowledgement of 
>what we are doing here?
>
>We are not just photographers and printers... it may sound pompous, 
>but we are all zealots for a revolutionary new process that is 
>advancing the art and craft for all photographers (not replacing, but 
>advancing).
>
>Can we come out of this with something postitive???
>
>Tom O'Connell
>
>TomOC@...
>www.thomasoconnell.com
>
>
>--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Alan Zinn <AZinn@n...> 
>wrote:
>> At 04:10 PM 2/26/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>> >This could be a great press vehicle for us. We should
>> >send this item to PDN news section. Maybe  we should
>> >protest out on the sidewalk in front of the BW
>> >offices, wearing nothing but big plastic G4 boxes, and
>> >we'll throw fixer or hypoclear on the officers when
>> >they walk by on the way to lunch.
>> >
>> >Mark my words, this guy will eat his words. The only
>> >question is how long it will take. Gentlemen, gather
>> >your arms. The time is now.
>> >
>> 
>> Guys,
>> 
>>  They deserve the opportunity to test a rapidly narrowing niche 
>market and
>> sink or swim.  In the final analysis marketing gimmicks are what 
>sell prints
>> and they know it. Whining about that is silly.  That they use 
>modern methods
>> to print their rag and quibbling about chemical darkroom processes 
>also
>> being "mechanical" misses the point.  
>> 
>> Shut up and make art,
>> 
>> AZ


Tom,

The tenth of one percent of art buyers (I'm being generous) who buy fine
photo prints probably don't care much about the editorial policy of a not
that great magazine. All the other US photo mags I am aware of have not
turned up their noses at digital subjects. I'll wager that the majority of
BW subscribers and advertisers squawked to the publisher to hang on to their
traditional methods corner of the universe for as long as they can. What's
wrong with that? 

We all have been saying that digital is a hard-sell for now because the
gallery types don't know the process or the lingo. Someone said before here
that it will only take a couple of notable photographers to go digital to
turn the tide. 

AZ

Maker of Lookaround panoramic camera.

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