Digital BW, The Print

Martin Wesley wrote:

> <snip> about Lenswork
> 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.

For a long time I was enamored with photo gravure prints (and I still think good ones *are* beautiful), but
when I spoke with my dealer about us doing them, he stated, unequivocally, that photo gravures sell for *way*
less than silver prints...And that this was even true of the Robert Maplethorpe gravures.  I did some further
investigating and found that he was right.

How odd....Again, commerce, not art.

Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC

PS: An artist friend of ours who was doing photo gravures, is switching to inkjet prints after playing with
our Epson 2000P, PS,  and computer.  She is now looking into getting an Epson 7000!



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