Digital BW, The Print

SKID Wrote:

    >I guess the Brooklyn Museum of Art in NYC, who had one of the defining shows on
    >Digital imagery last summer is wrong.  ;-)

    >The reason there is no mention of 'photography' or 'enlargement' with a 'toned
    >silver gelatin print' is that it is understood to be a photograph.  'Oil on
    >canvas' or 'Oil on Paper' does not mention the word painting because it's
    >understood.  If someone got oil paints to go through an inkjet printer, it would
    >not be labeled 'oil on paper'.

Wow, I guess because one uses makes an image with a camera, deveops the negative, scans it and "prints" it with a inkjet printer that the final product is not understood to be a photgraph.......

I give up....from now on I am going back to platinum printing. I guess I will be spending a lot of money on allergy pills. I really want to make photographs.

Mike



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