Digital BW, The Print

Thank you for sharing this video! Here I am in California all my life 
and never really appreciated it.
Debbi





>Start with the gospels: Weston's Daybook I and especially II and
>Ansel's "The Negative" and "The Print" ...not his "art books" which
>IMO simply stun, don't reveal.
>
>Here's a link that was given to me yesterday..Wessel...watch the
>excellent video and listen to the man..might help make sense of Shore...
>
>http://www.kqed.org/arts/people/spark/profile.jsp?id=17900
>
>Few photographers write well and although Szarkowski did, I think he
>over-emphasized certain angles, inspiring tiresome trends. I don't
>think he understood his photographers but he did interpret their work
>credibly, writing well.
>
>IMO both Wessel and Shore are yesterday's news (whereas Weston and
>Adams remain deities) but Wessel's life work is an inspiration ...
>thanks to this video I'm going to look back on old negatives with an
>eye to selective reprinting. And there may be more to learn from old
>B&W American and French "noir" films than from old B&W still
>photographers :-)
>
>John
>
>
>
>--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Oksen"
><oksen@...> wrote:
>>
>>  Sorry for going slightly out of topic, but this issue may also have
>general
>>  interest.
>>
>>  Having photographed for years on amateur basis, I still often find
>it hard
>>  to decide whether a picture is really good or not. I am often
>baffled about
>>  why a specific image is supposed to be so good when being at
>exhibitions. I
>>  therefore am looking for references to good books that may explain
>what it
>>  actually is that makes a good photograph (knowing that such an answer
>>  probably does not exist - but anyway). I have my eyes on
>>
>>  Szarkowski's "The photographers eye" and  Ashley la Grange "Basic
>Critical
>>  Theory for Photographers". I already have "
>>
><http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nature-Photographs-Primer-Stephen-Shore/dp/07148458
>>  5X/ref=pd_sim_b_1/202-7939729-4406211?ie=UTF8&qid=1185448294&sr=1-1> The
>>  Nature of Photographs: A Primer" by Stephen Shore but did not really get
>>  much out of that one. The text was too rudimentary I think. Am also
>probably
>>  going to get Diallo's new book on BW printing based on the
>recommendations
>>  on this list.
>>
>> 
>>
>>  Are these books any help, and are there other suggestions or comments?
>>
>> 
>>
>>  regards,
>>
>>  Peter._,___
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