Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., SKID Photography 
<skid@b...> wrote:

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> 
> My only comment about the above is that before the newer Fuji color 
products there was no easy way for
> photographers to make their own color (landscape, or otherwise) 
prints which were stable (I know there was
> Cibachromes first, but they too started with a lot of color and 
contrast problems).  The old 'R' and 'C' type
> papers were infamously unstable.  The only stable form of color 
print *was* dye transfer, and that methodology
> was beyond the reach of almost all photographers.  And *that* was 
one of the reasons that color was not an
> acceptable art form...The technology was not there yet.  Brett 
Weston's (by way of example) beautiful color
> dye transfer prints were also accepted as 'art'...But again, dye 
transfer prints.
> 
Thanks Harvey. I only want to add that in the San Francisco area I 
have seen a pretty good acceptance of Cibachromes in galleries. 
Especially the work of Christopher Burkett who is truely brillant. 
His large prints have been selling well. Oddly enough he has adopted 
a very strong anti-digital stance and is staying with Cibachrome.

http://www.christopherburkett.com/

Click on the "No Digital" in the red circle with the red slach 
through it if you want to have your blood boiled. Otherwise pass.

Martin