Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Mark Tucker" <mark@m...> 
wrote:
> It's a continuing source of hearty chuckles to pick up B/W 
> Magazine from time to time. I love to watch the subtle ways that 
> they continue to bash digital technology with one hand, and 
> somehow manage to accept advertising dollars from companies 
> that use digital techniques, with the other hand.
> 
> * Page 22: Funny ad from some photographer's group in Long 
> Island that have "dedicated themselves to preservation and 
> furthering of classical BW photography", blah blah blah. 
> 
> Then in the next paragraph they brag how their members' work 
> will be digitally archived via CD, DVD, and the Internet.
> 
> I wrote them a very serious tongue-in-cheek letter suggesting 
> that they all sell their computers and only correspond via manual 
> typewriters and USMail.
> 
> * Page 7: Publisher again makes note of their continued 
> defiance of digital photography. Even though they've featured 
> photographers who use digital, this came from a prior promise 
> before their philosophical shift. 
> 
> * Page 65: Magazine accepts money from full-page 
> advertisement from a company called Ataraxia Studio, which 
> claims to produce long lasting digital prints with pigments.
> 
> * Page 69: Magazine accepts money from full-page 
> advertisement for A&I Lab in Los Angeles, who mentions their 
> Iris and LightJet printing services.
> 
> * Page 142: Magazine accepts money from full-page 
> advertisement for Camera West store, which mentions their 
> stock of digital cameras.
> 
> *Page 144: Magazine accepts money from full-page 
> advertisement from PhotoVillage.com, featuring wide range of 
> film scanners, scanning services, and Piezo services.
> 
> -----------
> 
> You can't have it both ways, folks. If you're gonna take a stand, 
> take a stand; but with both your mouth AND your pocketbook.
> 
> Yet, having said all that, it's still a FINE magazine. One of the 
very 
> best on the stands. But it just makes you wonder what's 
> motivating this fear-based policy of resisting digital technology. 
> Can't we all just get along?
> 
> Just my opinion,
> 
> Mark Tucker, http://marktucker.com/
> 
> (cross-post)