Digital BW, The Print

Brian you are absolutely correct. I guess thats what happens when one
trusts a 70 year old memory ---arggggh.

I reread some of the articles in "Edward Weston Omnibus" edited by
Beaumont Newhall and Amy Conger and it became quite clear that an 8 x 10
view camera was his choice for landscape work and the like. He did use a
Graphlex for most portraiture. I might disagree a bit about his "mature
work" since the photographs he made in Mexico were spectacular. The
reminiscence by Ansel Adams was particularly fun to read again since one
could almost feel the cordial digging that went on between those two
concerning darkroom technique.

In a Weston show that went through Santa Fe some years ago most of the
prints that were exhibited were small, often less than 8x10 and I
suspect it was remembering that that induced me to make a misstatement.

I guess the point I was trying to make, poorly, was that he didn't
enlarge or manipulate his images other than what might be done using a
contact printing frame and that he, for practical purposes didn't print
larger than 8 x 10.

Roger

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Roger L Sopher
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