Digital BW, The Print

No disrespect but have you seen James Nachwey's work? I think he takes the prize for 35mm type photography.

Art

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From: Peter Marshall <petermarshall@...>
Date: Saturday, March 25, 2006 2:40 pm
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Scanning 35mm vs digital camera

> I've used 8x10 and I have to say it was never a match for 35mm for 
> most 
> of the things I wanted to do as a photographer. It depends what 
> you 
> want. There isn't a single path. My vote for the greatest 
> photographer 
> of the 20th century would quite probably go either to Andre 
> Kertesz or 
> Robert Frank or Walker Evans depending which side of the bed I got 
> out 
> of this morning. Never of course to Ansel, although occasionally 
> to 
> Edward W. and more often to Bill Brandt.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Marshall
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> cloudswimmer7774 wrote:
> > Man I hear this all the time.Mostly at DPreview dot comm.Is digital
> > capture really now a match for 8x10 BW film in fine art?I live 
> on the
> > Calif. coast and frequent quite a few galleries.I have yet to 
> see a
> > digital captured BW image that drops my jaw like Brett's stuff shot
> > with his old Calumet C-1, or Ansels large 8x10 stuff.I'm not totally
> > convinced these guys would be capturing with digital.
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> >> It's worth something. Not a single one of the photographers you
> >> mentioned, if they were in the prime of their career would NOT be
> >> shooting digital capture, especially Ansel Adams. He told us 
> himself 
> >> decades ago before he died that he wished it was available to him
> >> then. It wasn't. 
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