Digital BW, The Print

Huhhh?  I didn't say that!  In fact, I thought I was arguing against 
that in my reply:)

...though I do doubt that any photo is ever going to reach Mona Lisa 
status...

mark

...
> I disagree completely with Mark that the artistic worth of a fine 
print is
> less than a painting. Both are creative works, both require time 
and effort
> on the part of the artist. 
...
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Mark Hahn [mailto:markhahn2000@y...]
>   Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 5:03 PM
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
>   Subject: [Digital BW] Re: The Value of carbon B&W Prints
> 
> 
>   First of all, I think that there is no comparison between 
photography
>   and fine art painting, but just because a painting takes hours to
>   complete doesn't mean that it has any real value at all.  There 
are
>   many terrible painting done by bad artists every day which have no
>   value.
> 
>   Photos are different, even traditional prints.  Many traditional
>   prints can be duplicated just as successfully as digital images, 
in
>   fact I would avoid almost taking any shot that I knew would 
require
>   hours of darkroom manipulation... since there are infinite images 
to
>   grab, while pick ones that are going to be hard?
> 
>   Value is set by those paying for the photos, there is no inherent
>   value to anything.  If people are happy to pay you might as well 
be
>   happy to sell to them:)
> 
>   mark
> 
>   ...
>   > There seems to be a lot of people on this site that sell their
>   digital
>   > prints.  How have you rationalized this in your mind?  Do you 
sell
>   a limited
>   > edition of an individual print?  Once you sell out of a popular
>   print are
>   > you tempted to hit "print" again and make more?  It would be 
easy
>   wouldn't
>   > it?  :)
>   >
>   > What does everyone think about this?
>   ...