Digital BW, The Print

I've really tried to resist getting into this discussion, but just for the fun of it, I have to 
wonder if we are truly justified in calling these objects photographs at all since they are 
not created from a light sensitive material?  It's probably more of a philosophical or 
intellectual discussion signifying little, but it's sort of fun to think about.

Jim





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Peter Gorwin <pshelleyg@c...> 
wrote:
> No, but traditional wet dark room prints are referred to as "Silver 
> Gelatin,"
> whether they've been printed on fibre base or rc paper.
> I like "Pigment Print."  This sort of lets everyone know that the image
> hasn't been printed with dye-based ink, and that they are getting 
> something that's
> not supposed to fade the day after tomorrow.  Peter G.
> 
> On Mar 3, 2005, at 8:12 AM, Steve Kale wrote:
> 
> >
> > Do prints produced in the dark room have to come with a tag that 
> > describes
> > the solutions used and type of paper?  Surely they don't expect all 
> > that
> > info in a "label".  No.
> >
> >