Digital BW, The Print

I have seen these prints when they were on exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and they are truly beautiful prints.  Well worth the effort to see them. Some of them are very large -- in the 20x30 range, or larger -- and they are so good that seeing them helped convince me to invest in the digital darkroom. I understand what the NY Times reviewer is saying, in a way, but he is mystifying Evan's original prints, making them into something akin to the one-of-a-kind painting. I'm convinced that Walker Evans would have applauded this technology; he was primarily a fine art photographer, not a documentarian. Nor did he do his own printing. So in a way he had already given up his negatives to theprinting skills of others. See this work if you can -- it is a fine example of state-of-the-art digital enhancement of 70-year-old negatives.  JNW