Digital BW, The Print

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From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Inkjet prints and galleries

> comes to mine they were not originally accepted as anymore than
> documentation of facts.

Accepted by who? If by that you mean the then current art establishment then
maybe so but then the establishment do not represent much of a buying
market, neither do they have any direct influence on others buying decisions
except as suggested below.

The general buying public always decide these issues in the end and
providing they enjoy the oportunity to actually view the objects under
consideration, sales will be made.....and lost no doubt.

> Now we throw in scanners and digital cameras which capture a computer
> file. On top of that there is the "digital darkroom" which consist of
> say Photoshop - a piece of software that one can use to easily remove
> the imperfections and  age lines from the face of a subject and make a
> person look 20 years younger. With photoshop you can easily mix in
> portions of different images that will be almost undetectable in the
> final print.
>
> I think the real question is not the final presentation method,
> convention silver prints vs. inkjet printers, I think the question at
> what point does digital photography cross the line (fuzzy as it may be)
> between photography (as most view it) and graphics arts?

When someone decides to pay out the old hard stuff for the specific image.

> When a serious buyer.....

What si a serious buyer?

 > So I feel the question is a little bigger than just the way the final
> print is produced, inkjet vs. chemistry.

Ah so!

> That being said I am sure if he were a young man today, Ansel Adams  would
be at the forefront pushing the techniques of digital photography.

he would hardly have much of a choice would he now, always assuming that
longevity on the sales front was  the main purpose.

>  It just may take awhile for the photography community to catch up.


...are photographers a community? it always seemed to me that they were/are
a just a collection of individuals who have little or any influence on what
the buying public decide to aquire.