Digital BW, The Print

>  This discussion reminds me of a related topic, though. It was my 
understanding, both from what I recall reading at the time and from 
conversation with Ansel Adams, that he intended for his negatives to 
be accessable to qualified graduate students. He anticipated digital 
printing (calling it "electronic photography", if memory serves me) 
and actually looked forward to his work being re-interpreted as 
technology moved forward.

among other things, from the introduction the The Negative (vol II of 
his famous three volume set):

"I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the 
electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will 
have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, 
and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to 
comprehend and control them."