Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Ellis"
<bellis60@v...> wrote:
> Djon said:
> 
> >Weston used the most technically >advanced camera that was available to
> >him at the time...that Graflex SLR.
> 
> Actually Weston used the Graflex only for studio portraits and then
mostly
> in his early career as a commercial portrait photographer. 

Wrong, he used his SLR extensively for dancers, nudes.

 
> 
> >If you've seen the enlargers of the era >you understand why his poverty
> >wasn't the only reason he didn't own
> >one.
> 
> "The era" in which Weston photographed was an approximate 40 year period
> extending from about 1915 to about 1955. The enlargers from that
time frame 
> were fine. 

No, they were brutally awkward to use by comparison to Dursts etc.
Physically huge, klunky. No fun. Didn't contribute anything to his
process anyway. He kept things simple.
 
> >I think the reason he made contact >prints was the simplicity. He used
> >the easiest process.
 
> 
> I don't know what you mean about using the "most technically
advanced paper" 
 
Kodabromide. He loved it.  

He'd have a 4800 today. 

Djon