Digital BW, The Print

Yes, agreed!  With both.  The role of craft - that is the Hand of the artist (or some facsimile of such) is in my opinion an integral part of art as we have come to know and love it. We started down this rabbit hole of "good-enough as [rovided to us by machines of loving grace"  not so much with the digital revolution but when we began to accept the "conceptual" as sufficient ... Not a development I have ever been happy about or is the redefinition of art something that keeps with centuries of tradition, much less a few decades...

Michael Vendrell 

--- On Thu, 4/9/09, Tyler Boley <tyler@...> wrote:

From: Tyler Boley <tyler@...>
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Prints versus screen images.
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 2:23 PM











    
            
            


      
      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 DigitalBlackandWhit eThePrint@ 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

> InkjetMall.com

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