Digital BW, The Print

I am in this camp, there are always exceptions though.  I dropped color neg as soon as I discovered positives, and took up cibachrome in a lame attempt to get them on paper. It's like a bound pages book as compared to digital books. Though my chrome prints are petty bad, they are a lasting statement - as are the old family contact prints from the old country. Many of the young digital photographers have discovered polaroid and cherish these photographs . They tape them on the wall or clothesline hang them.

gar

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On 4/7/2009 at 4:01 PM Tyler Boley wrote:

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>> For years photographers thought of the chrome (positive transparency,  
>> on a backlit light table) as the standard; and it was certainly  
>> unmatchable in any other format at the time, so saying "here is my  
>> glorious work, it will look lousy when you make photo prints of it, or  
>> send it to press" was a common photographer's viewpoint.
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>> ...For others, its the final print on  
>> paper, but thats mostly the printmakers...
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>As someone with feet in both the commercial photography world, and the
>fine art photography world, I'd redefine those categories. 
>Commercial shooters, from large format ad work to 35mm Nat Geo work,
>glorified the transparency, and were generally disappointed with it's
>representation on paper and the compromises required to get it there.
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>But in the fine art photography community I was exposed to, color or B&W,
>you weren't done until you had a successfull print. From Eugene Smith to
>Eggleston, Gibson to Sommer, the print is the photograph. It's not just a
>printmaker concern.
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>This is not to suggest that all artists should follow this path, or that
>all fine art photographers have or should have, certainly there are many
>fascinating options.
>For me, from the beginning, I did not have a photograph until a print that
>spoke was in physical existence. I was exposed to this by several masters
>of photography early on, long before I was a "printmaker". 
>Tyler
>http://www.custom-digital.com/
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