Digital BW, The Print

davidhatton2000 wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I don't know how many prints you sell in France but, hey, if it
> really offends you...
>
> > Yeah, and I really *want* to call my prints some word that lots of people
> > consider rude.
>
> But it isn't
>
> > It's *so* much better than using the actual descriptive term 'inkjet print'
>
> No it's not
>
> > that's cheap and tawdry (according to some).
> >
> That's true ( according to some ) but doesn't that ('cheap and
> tawdry') mean the same as 'rude'?
>
>
> > Who kidding whom here?
>
> I don't think anyone is kidding anyone
>
> The point I am making is that you call your artwork what you care to,
> regardless of the opinion of others or their mis-use of language. The
> fact is that this method (whatever you wish to call it) of producing
> artwork is relatively new and squabbles inside the media are bound to
> occurr. It's healthy and produces ideas and growth.
>
> If we need to coin a phrase to legitamise the process we have chosen,
> it may as well be one which will enable the reactionary art world to
> hang work with a light heart. After all it's the work that is the
> important thing here, not the process.
>
> Let's stop being pedantic about process and get on with producing
> breathtaking images which would be valid regardless.
>
> David H

David,
Perhaps you missed my point here.  What I was trying to get to was that what we
make here are 'inkjet prints'.  That's what the museums call them.  We might
wish to market them under some fancy name, but they will still just be 'inkjet
prints'.

There will always be good inkjet prints and bad ones out there.  There will be
cheap ones and expensive one. But is still does not change what these prints
are:  Inkjet prints.

Why use some fancy French word when, what we make are: Inkjet prints.

Do you see what I'm getting at?  We make inkjet prints, using machines that take
inks, propel them through a 'jet', and put ink on a substrate, usually paper,
but not always.

Since the words inkjet prints the most simple description of the process, it is
used by academic institutions as the 'label of choice'.  These 2 words, 'inkjet
print' can be modified with one or more adjectives to further refine what we are
describing. Like: Carbon Pigment inkjet print on rag paper.

Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC





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