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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Beyond the name: selling prints/print quality of old vs new

2001-12-03 by Todd Flashner

on 12/3/01 12:13 PM, frank@... wrote:

> 4.  OK Mark, I'm finished using the term "piezo."  I could just as
> well use another stupid term like "giclee."  I'll stick with "carbon
> pigment" and explain it to people if asked.
> 
> I have a show next month at a local gallery and the director called
> and asked about my labelling the image on the post card
> "carbon pigment print."  It is a two person show with a woman
> doing "monoprints."  The director asked, "Are your images
> photographs or prints?" I guess if you put it that way, I'll return to
> calling them photographs.  The show is simply called "Prints."

I'm not saying I love it, but if we call these things Carbon Pigment Digital
Prints, or Carbon Pigment Inkjet Prints, or even the lewd Carbon Pigment
Giclee, doesn't it just answer all those doubts?

Todd

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