Digital BW, The Print

Sorry I need to correct myself here.  The exhibit "Ashes and Snow" at the
Nomadic Museum was on some sort of parchment - definitely not a
run-of-the-mill matte paper.


> From: Steve Kale <stevekale@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 11:23:30 +0100
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: the black thing
> 
> Again I have to say that of all the exhibitions I have been to in the last
> year, none have exhibited work on matte paper.  Maybe I am just not getting
> to enough galleries - or cheaper galleries or something.
> 
> The last exhibition I took in was in New York.  I don't recall the artist -
> unfortunately the visit was too rushed.  The prints were colour cibachrome
> shots of some American natural history archives - all sorts of preserved
> animals etc. (Someone in New York will know of the exhibition.)  $5000-$6500
> per print (if I recall properly) roughly 16x20in stuff.
> 
> All the black and white stuff I have seen has been traditional processes.
> Most other colour work has been Lightjet/Durst Lambda.  Whenever Epson/HP
> chooses to showcase their work at events it is colour on photo paper.  Now I
> don't spend countless hours scouring exhibitions but this seems a heavily
> weighted sample.  I also don't think that this is any reason why an
> individual should alter the way they choose to express themselves.  I am
> just puzzled when I see such statements.
> 
> 
>> From: Mark Rabiner <mark@...>
> 
> 
>> 
>> But it¹s definitely a matt ballgame.
>>