Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mark Rabiner
<mark@r...> wrote:
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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.
> > 
> > Djon
> > 
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> 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.
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> Your typical darkroom of his time did not have an enlarger in it.
> It had a lightbulbs hanging from the ceiling.
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> 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.
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> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> http://rabinergroup.com/
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