Digital BW, The Print

Since I am the bastard that started this "Photograph" thing, I thought I would add the following Wikipedia definition:

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A photograph (often shortened to photo) is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a w-redirect">CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens
to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction
of what the human eye would see. The process of creating photographs is
called photography. The word "photograph" coined 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φώς (phos), "light" + γραφίς (graphis), "stylus", "paintbrush" or γραφή (graphê), "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light".[1]

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I think the word "photograph" invented by Sr. John Herschel says it all!  This is the definition I was taught in college some 40 years ago, and the definition I used when I taught photography in college more recently.  Drawing with light.

It is the process that names the image we see.  So, if the final image, the one placed on display, is not made by using light, it is not a photograph.  The signal formed by the camera sensor could be a photograph though.

Electra magnetic ink splatterings??????  Call it what you want.  

Doing a image with a squirt gun loaded with ink could be a new art form, needing a great amount of skill.  One could develop a whole line of precision squirt guns.  Make tons of money selling them.  Especially in selling the inks and papers needed to use them properly.  Would we call that sort of image a Giclee too!

I wonder if Jackson Pollock ever tried it?  

; >)

Ben



      

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