Digital BW, The Print

Just a note on Lenswork Special Edition prints.

First off I have to say that if you are a B&W photographer Lenswork 
is a magazine you should be subscribing to for the wonderful 
photographs they publish, the high quality of the printing, good 
interviews and thought provoking op/ed pieces.

The do offer silver gelatin prints and now Hand Pulled Photogravure 
prints (not inkjet) ta very low prices. What they don't make 
immediately clear is that these are digital B&W prints as defined by 
the topic of this group.

The silver gelatin prints are made using contact negs printed from 
digital scans. They are extremely closed mouthed about how they make 
the negs but I am guessing it is a variation on Dan Burkholder's 
methods. (If they have achieved an improvement over Dan's method then 
I consider their failure to share this information reprehensible.)

For the Hand Pulled Photogravures they are most likely using a method 
similar to what Strange Ross is doing. (You can link to Strange's 
website in our Bookmarks section.)

So they are rather hypocritical in my eye and their arguments that 
photogravure is much more beautiful than inkjet have as much value as 
the silver vs. inkjet, or the platinum vs. silver, or oil painting 
vs. watercolor, color vs. B&W, etc.

They now have a forum by the way.

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=LensWork

There is even a post asking if Lenswork accepts Piezo portfolios, 
which has not been answered.

Martin