Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Editor, P.O.V.
Image Service" <editor@...> wrote:
>
> Did I miss this group becoming the "Harry Potter" and/or "PT Barnum" 
> sales-pitch group?
> 
> I'm sorry, but the laws of chemistry and physics, not those of alchemy 
> and hocus-pocus, apply, no matter how finely you grind the carbon. 
> 
> john dean wrote:
> > When this carbon is ground to such an ultrafine state to fit through
> > the nozzles of these printers and produce 2880 dpi resolution, and
> > even in variable sizes, you know they are not in a normal state either
> > molecularly or even chemically with the other ingredients added to
> > them for viscosity and suspension. And its all secret stuff...
> 

Keith, without directly commenting on the content or tone of your
post, I'd just like the list to know some more about the person you
are addressing-

"John has both a BFA in fine art photography from the University of
Arizona in Tucson and an MFA in fine art photography from Tyler School
of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He studied
with Todd Walker, William Larson, Harold Jones, Esther Parada, Martha
Madigan, Larry Fink, and offset printmaking with Michael Becotte at
the Tyler Offset Workshop in Philadelphia. He studied the history of
photography with Keith McElroy Ph.D. in Tucson. He has a very strong
background in art history and the history of photography, having
worked as an assistant at the Center For Creative Photography in
Tucson for 3 years. There he showed rare prints to researchers and
students and learned about the finest photographic printmaking first
hand from the actual portfolios of America's and Europe's greatest art
photographers. In that environment he met many of these great
printmakers: like Ansel Adams, Emmit Gowin, Harry Callahan, Aaron
Siskind, Frederick Sommer, Paul Caponigro, Linda Connor, Jerry
Uelsman, and W. Eugene Smith to name a few."

I doubt if there are but a handful of people frequenting this list
whose opinion I regard as highly about photographic printing.
John would never, in a million years, mention any of this. So I will.
Believe it or not, there are a few people around simply committed to
the highest of standards in photography, and not associated with a
manufacturer. I realize that's become so rare it's hard to believe.
Tyler