Digital BW, The Print

Paul Roark wrote:

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> My best estimate is that if Weston had used the best modern pigments and
> LPM, they would probably look better than any enlargements he might have
> made -- even today, with reasonable handling.  (Of course, his contact
> prints would, no doubt, be another story.  Did he do any enlargements?)
>

Weston, like all artists was full of contradictions.  He said he never 'enlarged' or cropped', but he was
known to take negatives and enlarge sections, and make new negatives out of them (cropped).  That way he could
say that he never cropped....

Also, some of the 'yellowing' in the old Weston prints is from the 'Butcher's Wax' that he coated his prints
with, for the 'luster'.

Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC



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