Digital BW, The Print

Tom,
Apologies for slow response here.  I don't understand your 'one 
clarification'.  Perhaps you didn't actually follow and read the link.  
My points are simple:

The article referred to in the link below is about modern artwork 
rotting and disintegrating in a very short timescale - hence the subject 
line of the post which is also the title of the article in the Telegraph.
I'm sure many on this list have many reasons for being here, but my 
reference was to artwork - the subject of the link.

I'm sorry not to have included reference to everyone's interests  in my 
short post but I think it wasn't necessary as again the reference was 
specifically meant to be to artwork.

I suspect you may have though that I was deriding the attention we pay 
to longevity of our work (art or family or ...).  But I wasn't - on the 
contrary it is very important and the article highlights the problems 
for all when no attention is paid to the durability/longevity.  So I was 
emphatically NOT suggesting that paying attention to longevity is rot.

I do wonder whether I've misinterpreted the tone of your response and, 
perhaps, you were just were joking with me?

All the best.
Steve Gledhill
http://www.virtuallygrey.co.uk/


   Tom Baker wrote:
>
> Just one clarification. Some, if not many, on this list are not so 
> much interested in the longevity for 'fine art' as they are for family 
> photos. Family photos are much more likely to handed down from 
> generation to generation, and longevity would be very important. So, 
> from this perspective it is not rot.
> Tom Baker
>

> Steve Gledhill wrote:
> I know some of us are (rightly) obsessed with the longevity of our
> prints. Here's and article entitled "A Load of Rot" from last week's
> Sunday Telegraph in the UK which puts into perspective our concerns
> about how long our works of art might last.
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/11/26/svartdecay26.xml&page=1 
> <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/11/26/svartdecay26.xml&page=1>
> Steve Gledhill
> http://www.virtuallygrey.co.uk/ <http://www.virtuallygrey.co.uk/>
>
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