Digital BW, The Print

as long as communities like this list consider themselves an eccentric niche, instead of projecting outwards the way the likes of Adams and White did before us, our interests and concerns will continue to be marginalized.
Possibly to the point of extinction.
That would be a shame. By the way, Helen Levitt passed last week, another luminary.
Tyler

 --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Cone" <jon@...> wrote:
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> At the risk of being accused of sarcasm, what about listening to a string orchestra in a concert hall or listening to a recording of a string orchestra in a concert hall but through the tiny internal speakers of an iPhone using the concert hall ambient settings of its iPod app?
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> Why is this group losing its focus on what makes black & white photography so extraordinary?  The Print.
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> Has it been that long for so many that the inherent beauty of an exquisitely crafted silver or carbon print is now lost to memory? Or is it because the ability to craft one is becoming a lost art as so many navigate to printing B&W with color inks on Canon, Epson, HP and Lexmark printers?
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> Jon Cone
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