Digital BW, The Print

> Actually, Paul, I believe photographs in the public domain 
> can be sold by you and me.  I'm not a lawyer, but a few years 
> ago I did some research, and downloaded some FSA photos for 
> me to sell. Some of the FSA shots, like Arthur Rothstein's 
> Dust Bowl photo, were removed from the public domain by the 
> photographers (not sure how they did that), but the vast 
> majority are available.  Getting ahold of a high resolution 
> file is more difficult, because most of them were not scanned 
>  high res. I seem to remember reading that the work from 
> negatives larger than 35 mm was copied to 35mm, and then 
> scanned. You can imagine how poor a lot of them are!
> 
> Clay Price

	The "Migrant Mother" I downloaded was a grayscale 55mb tif, and
appears to be a scan of the LF neg.  I just resized to 8x10, sharpened in PK
Sharpener, touched up the contrast a little and printed on Innova natural
white (Epson 2200/IP).  It looks great, better than my recollection of the
museum prints.  I'm pretty sure it is a scan of the original or copy neg
because, aside from the rebate border, the dust hasn't been retouched and
the thumb hasn't been airbrushed out as in the gallery prints.  Whatever, it
is a very interesting (humbling)experience to print these images.

Ken