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Re: Terrific article on Walker Evans in today's New York Times

2006-08-26 by Tim Atherton

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> > Sorry to say it's a very negative, anti-digital article though. 
In 
> the
> > mind of the reviewer, it seems, once a negative has been printed 
on
> > silver it may never be printed as a carbon inkjet print. Also,
> > apparently, once it's been printed small it can never be printed 
> large. 

On the contrary, I thought the article was very balanced - with some 
of the pros and cons on both sides. In fact the negative aspects were 
mainly very specific to issues with Evan's work in particular.

(Though the article ignores a couple of its own points - probably the 
majority of Evan's prints weren't made by him, so the part about Bach 
being Bach doesnt quite hold up. As well, many of the vintage FSA 
period prints around were made by FSA/OWI lab printers and the choice 
of printing "style" was not always Evan's choice)

tim a

BTW - you can download and print many of the files yourself from the 
LOC - or else order your own scans or prints quite cheaply.

I have a few on my wall I printed a number of years ago now. (might 
be a good ebay business - though I see someone is already kinda doing 
it)

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