Digital BW, The Print

The most archival photograph will be the print that still looks good in 100 years. Who really cares about the digital file. The value is in the print. 

I was digitizing a lot of photographs for our art museum recently. What a pleasure to see original Weston, Adams, Callahan and Minor White prints. What struck me in seeing many of the "greats" prints, is how much the quality of prints varied! I would have to say today's digital prints have a much better overall quality. Nothing comparable to your carbon prints Paul! ;-)

John Nollendorfs 



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <roark.paul@...> wrote:
> "John" <jrnolly@> wrote:
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> > Yes, film is mostly more permanent, but more precisely "universal". You don't need any special equipment to look at the image. ...
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> I'm going to make a set of prints on 13 x 19 as the "archival" storage medium for the museum project I seem to always be working on.  I looked at the various options for printing and, while glossy had the best signal to noise ratio, a cotton paper was chosen for permanence.
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> I wonder how the collectors look at all of this.  Will our really good carbon on cotton prints have more value if there is NO forever backup?
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> Sometimes an artist's work goes up  
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> Paul
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