Digital BW, The Print

Paradigm shift.  If you want fuzzy prints with posterization...then uncoated
papers are the way to go!

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On 9/19/01 11:59 AM, "ken@..." <ken@...> wrote:

> Jerry:
> 
> I appreciate your input to my query for information about printing on
> uncoated papers. In your message, you bring up a good point for
> discussion...What is a satisfactory print?
> 
> During the years I've been doing traditional wet darkroom silver
> photography, many times I've heard the term 'technically perfect
> print'. It usually referred to the Ansel Adams stipulation that a
> photographic print should be grainless, full depth of focus, detail
> in the shadows, printed on cold black and white silver-rich paper,
> mounted on pure white mat board, etc....
> 
> When I got into digital printing, I accepted that it was a new
> medium. I'm not trying to copy photography, duplicate the silver
> look. I have no loyalty to photography, or a set of standards other
> than my own, which is to try to express a feeling in my art. Step
> wedges are ok, zone system is ok...but if the resulting finished
> piece is 'dead' in it's soul, then it is of no use. What I'm trying
> to communicate here is that the field is totally wide-open...with the
> pinnacle of purpose for me being...get the feeling in the work.
> 
> How black does black have to be to equate a feeling? Does detail in
> the shadows make more or less feeling? Can a soft print express deep
> feeling? If glossy paper makes the best detail, but it's plastic
> appearance spoils the aesthetics I was trying to imbue into the work,
> then I failed!
> 
> you get my point...I want a knowledge of this new medium, it's
> limitations, so I can find my own place within it and still be loyal
> to my purpose of expression. If it has to be the look of a watercolor
> or charcoal drawing, instead of a photograph, then maybe I've found a
> new path to express myself. Making art for me is a wild exploration
> into my self...it cannot be fettered by old science and dogmas.
> 
> The stipulations put on traditional photography by its icons, its
> schools, and its market has always been curious to me. Other forms of
> art: painting, sculpture, drawing...don't have these stipulations. It
> is difficult to go beyond the limits of the camera, the accepted
> precepts of a medium....but how else will we express a unique vision?
> 
> ken
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson
> <jerryolson@r...> wrote:
>> Ken, doubt you'll ever get satisfactory prints on uncoated papers.
> You'd be the first one to do so,....
> 
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