Digital BW, The Print

Better start imagining what?  They are dead for crying out loud.  
You know I would expect that someone who uses "digi" in their screen 
name would be very one tracked and one sided, but come on....  Yes 
maybe Adams, Weston, or Bresson would shoot digital if alive today.  
Maybe they would find girlfriends online and leave their wives for 
them.  Maybe they would quite photography and start a yachting 
club.  Maybe, maybe, maybe.  Here is something you need to know 
about Adams.  He did keep up with the current technology.  He shot 
lots of color work that not many people know about.  But think about 
this.....What is Adams known for?  What works of his are the most 
famous?  Is it his color work when color was the hotest thing?  NO!  
It was that b&w film work.  Still is to this day.  Same goes for all 
the photographers mentioned.  So enjoy your digital, but until there 
are greats works of art created with digital, you have no leg to 
stand on.  Atleast when it comes to the fine art market.  A market 
Adams and Weston took part in. A market where if you check the 
galleries in major metropolitan areas, you will find that a 
disproportionate amount of b&w work is traditional (like 95%).  
Why?  Because they are fine artist who follow their creative spirit, 
not Popular Photography's digital camera reviews.  Also, b&w fine 
art the traditional way is and always will be gorgeous! This is not 
to take anything away from digital and those that strive to make 
digital b&w fine art prints.  But, please.  All the great 
photographers you mentioned are remembered for gorgeous b&w 
traditional prints.  A little respect for that craft please.  I have 
never heard anyone turn to digital because they thought it was more 
beautiful than a well printed 4x5 b&w print.  No, they turn to 
digital because the recurring costs are cheap and they can take as 
many pictures as they like.  Not exactly a move made for 
your "artistic vision" is it?

"digikdm" <monroekd@...> wrote:
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> you'd better start imagining it.  
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, David 
Aschkenas 
> <Daschkenas@> wrote:
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> > Think of it this way..can you imagine a photo by Robert Frank, 
Josef
> > Koudelka, Cartier Bresson, William Klein....without a grainy 
> grittiness???
> > Can you imagine a photo by Weston, Strand, Stieglitz, Adams or 
any 
> other
> > large format shooters..WITH grain and grittiness??
> >
>