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Re: [Digital BW] A teaser about 25 year print life

2001-12-17 by SKID Photography

lyonscox wrote:

>  I just want you all to know...
>
> as you grow older not only do those eyeballs of yours change but so
> do your sensibilities about contrast and color.  Seen more than one
> print that was accepted/rejected at one time and the reverse
> judgement was held a decades later.
>
> Nuance is measured in the moment.
>
> :-)
>
> Cleavis

As proof of the above look at how Ansel Adams's and Irving Penn's printing changed as they got older.  The
prints got much more contrasty and I don't think it was because their techniques changed as much as their eyes
did.

Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC





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