Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Todd Flashner 
<tflash@e...> wrote:
> 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, Frank,

In this show, I called mine: "Photograph: Carbon Pigment on 
Coated Watercolor Paper". I could just have easily omitted the 
word "coated"; it doesn't really add anything. Actually I like 
"acid-free" watercolor paper better. 

Like Paul Roark, I like the simple term "Photograph". In the big 
picture of art world, photograph is easy to categorize. I think it 
also begins to stop the covert apology about them not being 
silver prints. Personally, now that I'm using pigments instead of 
dyes, I'm ready to stop apologizing. I'll hold one of mine up to a 
silver print any day now.

I suggest that from this point forward, we all stop apologizing, as 
long as we've taken all the steps that are within our means to 
make a long-lasting print, (whatever that means).

That "piezograph" word reminds me of that Man Ray term, 
"Rayograph". Just sounds hokey and kitschy. Fine if others want 
to use it, but it's got a tinny sound to me when I hear it. Not solid. 
Sounds too close to "photograph"; but like a distant third-cousin 
that couldn't make the cut of being a true photograph.

Just my opinion.