Digital BW, The Print

Photo San Francisco, now in its fifth year, was a show and sale held in a large building 
in Fort Mason (a former Army installation) last weekend. This year, approximately 90 
photography galleries had booths.

Today I wish I had gone there looking for digital topics, but I didn't. Next year. 
However, two observations:

1. At the Etherton Gallery booth, along side the work by brilliant silver printers Gene 
Smith, Eikoh Hosoe, Joel-Peter Witkin and many others, there was digital work by 
Mark Klett. He's doing another 're-photography' series, this time on San Francisco.

I found Klett's tonal range rather compressed, both in color and grayscale, perhaps by 
his choice.

2. At the booth of the Seattle gallery representing Jock Sturges, they had his color 
work, which they called 'digital pigment prints'. They refused to include the word 
'inkjet' in the description, reserving that word for pix that will not last.

Michael