Digital BW, The Print

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> 
> Vision and technology occupy different halves of the brain, and this
> has implications for digital workflow Vs optical.
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> It's worth reading Daybook II to see what Weston was really
> about...he's extremely clear about his work.
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> Djon
> 

I disagree with what seems to be going on here about a simplistic approach
attributed to Weston.
Weston was the product of a commercial photographic school.
He knew how to retouch negatives.
He was trained and was technically proficient in that standard stuff that a
commercial photographer would be technically proficient in in his time.
He didn¹t take the easy way out. He did things in the standard way.

Your typical darkroom of his time did not have an enlarger in it.
It had a lightbulbs hanging from the ceiling.

This was not a clever diversion on the part of Weston to circumvent stuff he
didn't understand or would rather avoid.
He was in Rome and doing what the Romans did.

Only it was Mexico. Close.



Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/





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