Digital BW, The Print

Mark Tucker, 

Your posts always get a chuckle of agreement from me. 

I do think the BW Mag is the best for displaying B&W photography and it has high "production values" looks slick and is interesting to read.  For all those reasons it succeeds (in my book) even if I don't agree with their editor on Digital. 

Good observations on your part.   

Regarding the "Nude Policy" isn't it ironic that they can state that.....and then have a prominent Betty Page pic (bent over) in one of the articles.  Not that I don't admire Betty Page, but I certainly wouldn't consider her more common images to be "art"....especially when the original intent of the images was specifically pornography...(oops...maybe it was actually intended to be "figure studies") .....but then again one person's art is another person's pornography...or is it vice a versa?

Also....this latest issue must have the highest count ever of bared breasts (female kind).  I have observed a "fine art photography" maxim that if you want to take a picture of a person (female) and have it considered "ART"  then the "rule" is that it must contain at least one bare breast or a nipble (oops I hope this doesn't get censored by Yahoo so have made a typo on purpose)....

Just take a look at that issue again and do a quick count of the bare breasts in it....it must be a record.  Talk about "cliches" (sorry don't know how to do those fancy diacritical marks in email).  Come to think of it, I will do a little further research on this subject and post the count later on this forum.  Perhaps this forum could start a "Nipble Index" and start tracking the monthly results of this mag and others.  

Even one of the featured photographers (in an article) seems to use breasts in just about every shot...the ones with "multiple exposures"  or composites of a nude woman and textures like a brick wall....looks like a photoshop layered image...though that would be using digital again and would be "unfair" wouldn't it?   Hah!

Just some observations..

Steadman

 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: marktuckerdotcom 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 11:23 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] BW Magazine: June issue


  Picked up this magazine today at Borders. I kinda rolled my eyes 
  when I saw it at first glance on the newsstand, but thought I'd 
  give it a second chance.

  Interesting section in the very back: a section called "Exposure", 
  a tightly-controlled, staff-designed section where individual 
  photographers buy quarter or half-page ads to offer their prints. 

  They note their new policy on nudes: only "fine art nudes"; no 
  more "glamour nudes". How funny.

  Also interesting that you must submit prints for scanning; no 
  scans are accepted. (Is this to address color-management 
  concerns, or to assure them that you're a silver-gelatin guy?)

  Anyway, as much as I love to rib this magazine (the one that will 
  now ignore digital technology), it's still rather nicely done. (Even 
  though we have officially reached our limit in Ansel Adams 
  imitators; can we agree on that?)

  Mark Tucker


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