Digital BW, The Print

Ok, sorry now I know who you mean by Michael Kenna. I have never been  
able to keep people's names in my head well. Remember the faces if I  
met them, or the work, as in this case, but the original post didn't  
give me a context and I got confused as to whether it was someone on  
the list.

Now some of you seem to be suggesting that David Burdeny has just  
ripped off the work of others. Your only evidence for this seems to  
be that others have done similar work previously. And you make no  
mention of his 'The Drift' series which use a very different  
approach. If similarity of work to some done earlier is evidence of  
theft, then the first quoted Michael Kenna could also be accused,  
since his work comes after Sugimoto's, whose work comes after Wynn  
Bullock, etc. Personally I'd be a bit more cautious and want more  
evidence before making such a claim.

I think the reality is that there are forces at work that can draw  
independent work to a similar look. Shoot with a Blad or crop to a  
square for aesthetic reasons, use long exposure and BW are going to  
lead you to a similarity of look.

Cheers,

Wayne

Wayne J. Cosshall
Publisher, The Digital ImageMaker, http://www.dimagemaker.com/
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Coordindinator of Studies, Multimedia and Photomedia, Australian  
Academy of Design
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