Digital BW, The Print

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From: "jennifer drucker" <jdrucker@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 10:50 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Some additional thoughts Carbon v. Silver


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> So why, other than a bit of time, and the fact that one is done in the
dark with chemcials, the other in daylight with inks is a digital print any
less valuable than that of a silver print? I may understand it 10 years from
now when there are fewer and fewer silver prints being made thus making them
rare, but right now I just don't see it.

Jennifer,

Very well put! I agree completely! The entire idea that digital is easier
and significantly less time consuming than traditional wet printing is a
fallacy. My digital printing practices are very similar to my wet ones. Once
I have worked out a print I always make 2 or 3 extra copies knowing that
when I need another print in a year or two the paper and/or inks will have
changed  requiring me to re-tweak the image which usually leads to artistic
changes as well. The image of the digital print maker churning out hundreds
of identical fine art photographs simply isn't true.

Martin Wesley
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