Digital BW, The Print

Ansel's history is *obviously* fundamental to digital B&W inkjet 
printing. Ansel's work and teaching is a crucial reference point, 
even if, like me, one doesn't put him on a pedestal, alone. 

As a B&W printmaker he became expert in B&W scanning (drum scanning) 
in his last decade. This shouldn't be news...he wrote extensively 
about it. 

Ansel was a nerd, preoccupied with densitometry techniques for 
decades. This forum enjoys several Ansels-types :-) 

Printmaking involves visual intentions, which can (Ansel-like) 
directly follow from the making of the negative (or file). Arguably, 
nobody well-known has worked with this Group's printmaking process 
as obviously and thoroughly as Ansel did, even though he's long 
gone. 

Djon

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mark Savoia 
<mark@c...> wrote:
> What does any of this have to do with 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint ?  
> I thought this e-group was about digital printmaking not the 
history  
> of photography?
> Mark