Digital BW, The Print

There's a difference between printmaking and photography. They both
have their merits. "Purism" doesn't relate. 

Digital printing, like Ansel's work, often seems more like serigraphy
or etching than like photography...to me. I knew AA slightly, and a
little of how he worked. He wasn't especially focused on instants, he
was more into control and projection of his vision. 

More often photography has to do with instants in time, while by
necessity printmaking has to do with labor over a period of time.
Apples, oranges. Both might involve preconceptions, but the time
factor is more than incidental.

I think it's destructive to continually drive toward the ultimate
technical control (CSII is coming! EEEK!) because that makes the
activity, photography or printing, acquisative and consumerist. That's
precisely what Macbeth, Microsoft, Macintosh, and Adobe have in mind.


 Unless you're a purist who believes in doing nothing to an image
> after capture, each version of PS provides new and useful tools.
 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@i...