Digital BW, The Print

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  Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:02:54 -0400
  From: Jack M Kucy <jmk@...>
Subject: Re: Re: digital silverprints - am I missing something...

Hi Group,
In 1981 I had my first art exhibition of my images.  They were of course 
silver emulsion,
fiber based prints printed to archival (?!) specifications.  Since then 
I had a few shows,
to which I printed myself the wet-darkroom prints.  I loved them - but 
even though I was
and I still am pretty good in chemical printing I never liked being 
locked up for several hours
in the darkroom.  Smell of chemicals made me sick....
So, now we can print (I use 1280 and MIS UT CIS) BW prints which with 
the small limitation
to the matte paper are (let's not be afraid of this)  BETTER or at least 
NOT WORSE than
chemical prints and I constantly hear the people nostalgically 
expressing desire to go
BACKWARDS.
Where is the catch?  With the evolution of digital technology SOON (I am 
sure of it)  we will
print archival BW prints on thick glossy or semi glossy fiber paper. 
Why getting back to the
wet darkroom.
ANOTHER QUESTION:
How many of you, who print themselves, or give it to the lab are 100% 
certain that your
(or lab's) prints are in fact archival and will last unchanged for 100 
years? I would be very
reluctant to acknowledge that about my own prints EVEN THOUGH I WAS ANAL 
about
all the washing, removing traces of the fixer, washing, using only 
archival (again)  mats and so.

So, what part of the concept am I missing?

Thanks,
Jack

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Jack M Kucy
JMK Gallery (www.jmk-gallery.com)
917-991-2096     jmk@...
Member of ASMP (www.asmp.org)
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