Digital BW, The Print

On 6/6/05 5:07 PM, "Darin Boville" <darin@...> typed:

> Well, it seems like a legitimate issue. People are still struggling
> about whether using inkjet technology weakens their art. You can have
> your own view but you can still see that the issue exists. If you
> admire Weston the issue might be relevant.
> 
> --Darin
> 

Weston Platinum printed printed early on. I saw those here in Portland last
year.
One could ask why he stepped down from platinum to gelatin silver.
If one considered that a step down.
And one could wonder if he'd further step down again being alive today to
inkjet.
If one considered THAT a step down.

More than one way to print a neg.
More than one way to get pigment on paper.
If one is un informed enough to considered one art technique "superior" to
another:
Oil painting over watercolor or sculpture or intaglio press printing then
one can further  make judgments as to the people who have chosen those forms
to express themselves. And try to make it so the techniques themselves
define the artist.

It just brings to mind for me that fact that photography is an art form.
And if we are doing photography and we are doing art.
And if we are going to do "art" than perhaps we should look into it.
Take some art courses and so on.
To gain a broader perspective.

Any first year art student will laugh at the idea that an artist is defined
by their media and that one media is a step up or down from another.

You get yourself an artist with a vision and it doesnt matter much what
media he/she works in.

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