Digital BW, The Print

From the Bill Brandt Gallery section of the web site: 
http://www.billbrandt.com/Gallery/galleryentrance.html\

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Carbon Prints

Brandt in BIG size. Our latest portfolio is produced by master 
printmakers Adamson Editions who have collaborated with some of the 
most influential artists working today including Harry Callahan, Bruce 
Weber, and Annie Leibovitz.


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SIZE

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Print size: 30 x 40 in (51 x 100 cm) Edition of 25
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Adamson Editions is a digital printer using, it would appear, Epson 
printers with OEM inks!




On Jul 18, 2005, at 8:30 PM, Djon wrote:

>  www.billbrandt.com/News/Current%20Exhibitions/Press%
> 20release/pressreleasefkg.html
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> I'm driving down to Los Angeles from Monterey to see this important
> Bill Brandt exhibit...the press release I've cited here is overblown,
> but Brandt's work certainly is well known to anybody who's taken a
> serious interest in B&W photography outside the confines of scenics.
>
>  Brandt's images should be especially exciting, rather than
> merely "precious," when seen in grand scale and with the extra
> control that's so readily available with inkjet printing..."carbon"
> printing as the gallery labels it in the Los Angeles Times.
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> "He excelled in all fields - social, Surrealism, night photography,
> documentary, landscape, portraiture and the nude."
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> "Brandt's nudes are also considered as his most innovative work. "In
> photography only Edward Weston has made nudes of equal power," said
> John Szarkowski, Director Emeritus of MoMA's Department of
> Photography. Dramatic use of the contrasting values of black and
> white, and exploration of optical deformations, cause the nudes to
> read as daring studies in abstractions, somewhat reminiscent of Henry
> Moore's sculptures.
>
> "Carbon was one of the earliest substances used to produce
> photographic prints. The first known image-forming use of carbon
> pigment was in the Paleolithic Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc cave in France some
> 30,000 years ago. More recently, the first photographic Carbon Print
> process was developed by Adolphe Poitevin in France in 1856."
>
> "An important aspect of the process is that it is an ink on paper
> medium, not a light-sensitive emulsion, and therefore is more akin to
> gravure than to silver or platinum prints. Carbon printing is still
> practised today in various forms by those who revere a more permanent
> image."
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