Digital BW, The Print

It might not be a bad idea for digital printers to supply a digital
image of his work, if is lucky enough to sell to a museum, so they can
reprint it after his death. If the photographer is that important, then
of course it would be nice to have his work be just as nice in a couple
hundred years as it is now. But the technology in maybe 20 years will be
such that it will be difficult to find a reader for today's images. 
Hope none of you died with your works backed up to an 8 " floppy! I'm of
the mind, that after I'm gone, I really don't care how long my works
last. Of course I'm no Ansel or Brett, either. 

Jer

Tim Atherton wrote:
> 
> > Not sure I understand why it would be so important for any image to last
> > 100 years or more. Most color images sure don't.
> 
> Unless they are 500 year rated carbon pigment prints!
> 
> >(Unless you're on of
> > the top few dozen photographers in the world, then it may be of more
> > concern).
> >
> 
> Actually, it's not the artistic value that might be of concern, but rather
> their historical value as an archive. As a day to day record of our world
> today. Working in a photographic archive of 250,000 images, we have some
> going back to the 1890's. Many of them are seemingly mundane. A good few are
> very good photographs. A lot are interesting or intriguing. But, we still
> get hundreds of reference request for images from this collection. From
> researchers, writers, magazine, people hunting down family or tribal
> history, school kids doing projects - the whole gamut.
> 
> The images come from every source you can imagine - families,
> anthropologists, archaeologists, bush pilots, exploration geologists,
> missionaries, civil servants, miners, photographers, wives of Mounties (some
> of our best images - Geraldine Moodie's portraits from across the Arctic as
> she accompanied her RCMP Inspector husband in 1906-08) and many more..
> 
> If many of these images were inkjet prints, they would be around, even with
> 80 years of life. So yes, it is important (unless, o course you can give us
> the digital file! But bear in mind, many items in archives are not
> negatives - those are long gone, but rather prints).
> 
> tim a
> 
> Wearing his hat as
> 
> Senior Digital Imaging Technician,
> NWT Archives
> 
> (as opposed to editorial, Architectural, stock and several other kinds of
> photographer :-)   )
> 
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