Digital BW, The Print

> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jon Cone
> > <piezobw@c...> wrote:
> >
> > snip...
> >
> > > Perhaps the answer to longevity is making really good photographs?
> >

That is exactly the answer to the longevity issue!

The photographs I make which are admittedly bad will thus be thrown away
after I am gone. The question of how long they could last is moot.

But good photographs will be kept by the people who want them kept after the
photographer is dead. How to keep the photos will be their problem and their
solution.

It ain't DaVinci who is working the problem of longevity of the Mona Lisa.
It is worked by each generation who want the painting kept rather than
thrown away.

My point is that it is pointless for the artist to worry about how long his
or her art will last.