Digital BW, The Print

>> Some like compositing clouds from one image into the dull sky of another
>> image; some like straight photographs.
>
>> I like straight.

>... but that's the whole point - I bet your "straight" photograph isn't
>actually "straight"!

Of course, the definition of the term "straight" photography isn't set in
stone, and reasonable people can disagree about the meaning.  It my be a
little like the old US Supreme Court definition of "obscenity" -- you know
it when you see it.

I understand the term to describe a genre of photography that is roughly
defined by how the writers have used it and the nature of the work done by
those whose work is held up as samples of the genre.

In my 5/3/03 posting on this subject, I cited a number of web sources.  Some
of the definitions/descriptions included the following:

	..."straight," representing the world as it is ...

	...Strand produced a body of sharp-focus work,
	including somewhat abstracted still-lifes ...

	...new realism called "straight" photography ...

	...Group f/64, which was dedicated to straight photography
	as an art form  ...

	...historian Beaumont Newhall said, "Ansel Adams, in
	his photography, his writing, ... demonstrated
	the capabilities of straight photography as a
	medium of expression ....

The printers referenced did differing degrees of "manipulations" on their
work.  So, there is some variance within the style.

I don't think being digital, as opposed to wet-darkroom, should directly
affect whether a B&W print is "straight" landscape photography or not.

At any rate, I see myself doing a logical and inevitable, digital extension
of my "straight" silver-print, B&W photography -- but better.

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Atherton [mailto:timatherton@...]
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 8:23 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: un-altered camera image


> Some like compositing clouds from one image into the dull sky of another
> image; some like straight photographs.
>
> I like straight.

Jim, but that's the whole point - I bet your "straight" photograph isn't
actually "straight"!

tim



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