Digital BW, The Print

I argue with my photographer friends that the PRINT is the photograph, not the image seen on a computer. For me the print size is a critical aesthetic consideration. The eye moves (slightly) around a little computer image in an entirely different way that it moves around a real print. 

Also, the junk surrounding the computer image, including the monitor itself, pulls the image up to the plane of the monitor screen, destroying the character of the photograph as a window to the beyond.

Do any of you have opinions about prints vs screen images?

-- Alan Scharf
Saskatoon