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Re: [Digital BW] John Sexton's comment on B&W print

2005-08-20 by john dean

I still say 19th century.  I recently saw a show of work from all over
the world done in the late 1800's and those albumen prints were the
equal of anything the F64 group or since has produced. Yes, the zone
system gurus and that generation did do some refining here and there
but I wouldn't call that a quantum leap into a new methodology beyond
what was done over a hundred years ago. What set the Westons and
Adams, Caponigro, and their followers apart from earlier work was not
a technology advancement by any means but, a change in the way the
technology was used to see things within the framework of 20th century
painting (or an attempt to do someting that couldn't be accomplished
by painting.) What is happening now is major technological innovation
by comparison and will change everything, whether we like that or not.

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