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