Digital BW, The Print

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 5:18 AM
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Very cool B&W Lightjet prints
>
>
> >
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > > Personally I don't care how little or how much a print has been
> > > manipulated
> > > before or after the shutter clicked or in the dark or in the
> > > computer. If it
> > > is a good print and I like it, how it got that way is not
> > > important. (Unless
> > > I want to know how to do it myself!<G>)
> >
> > Agreed, but is it photography or graphics art?
>
> Austin,
>
> I don't know that I care too much about that either and you start to get
> lost in the definitions. I could reasonably say that photography is one of
> many graphic art forms but I know what you are taking about. A
photographer
> I know started out hand tinting and has involved the full blown use of
oils
> to the point that none of the silver emulsion shows through on some of the
> pieces. Is it painting? Is it photography? Perhaps it is both and an art
> critic would call it "mixed media"  Personally I don't think that it is
> necessary to assign a piece of work to a category.
>
> Martin
>