Digital BW, The Print

Yea, I'm a large format person too and have been for a long, long
time. That has nothing to do with it.
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 In truth I don't even know what he means by referring to silver
prints as "sensuous" and "tactile." Without having given it much
thought, I
would have said that with all the different kinds of papers on which
prints
can be made digitally they actually have a greater tactile quality than
silver prints.

Brian

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Now that is a really perceptive statement. It is exactly the opposite
phenomena and that is what makes that statement so funny. Back around
the turn of the century when photographers began flexing their
abilities big time and started to provide an alternative to
traditional arts like painting litho and intallio in the art world,
the big complaint against photo was its emotional "coldness" and
"mechanical" false and generic aesthetic. Sound familiar? It was
perceived to not only be a machine made thing,rather than human made
art, but its very surface was hard, industrial, assemblyline and
LACKING in sensuality. Not only that, many thought photo was
corrupting the entire morality of the culture at large. Definitely not
sensuous. That kind of talk was still going on in the 80's when I was
in grad school.

{ Read Baudelliere - Could you find an honest observer to declare that
the invasion of photography and the great industrial mad­ness of our
times have no part at all in this deplorable result? Are we to suppose
that a people whose eyes are growing used to considering the results
of a material sci­ence as though they were the products of the
beautiful, will not in the course of time have singularly diminished
its faculties of judging and of feeling what are among the most
ethereal and immaterial aspects of creation?} - ( duh, painting?)

Like Tyler said, we have SO many possibilites that there isn't time
enough to work on them all, much less worry about recreating the
past..... My 9600 is so slow finally I can trim this group and get
back to work. Faster printers, now that's what Im talkin bout..