Digital BW, The Print

If you didn't think digital art was here yet, take a look:

Internet art now being bought by the Guggenheim Foundation

http://artscanada.cbc.ca/artsNow/index.jsp?label=guggenheim020219


----- Original Message -----
From: "marktuckerdotcom" <mark@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:08 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: The Difital Revolution - WAS - AIPAD Galleries
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "mkravit"
> but
> > remember that the film is not the medium of display. Sure
> T-Max 100
> > can capture 22 stops of light, but the papers we print on are
> limited
> > to much less.
>
>
> One other interesting observation after this NY show -- I think this
> digital revolution is going to have a positive financial effect on
> artists who are selling GSP sliver prints.
>
> Before digital, silver was "contemporary". Now there's been a
> leapfrog action, and digital is now the "current state". Silver has
> now been pushed back one generation, which in gallery terms,
> makes it "older" and therefore more valuable. (I saw a large
> Robert Frank print on the wall there; cracked emulsion, yellowed
> highlights from processing. Next to the giant colorful
> Cibachromes and CPrints, the Frank print seemed almost Julia
> Margaret Cameron in nature).
>
> The same is also true for the salt prints, and bromoils, and gum
> prints. They are now "third" in generation, and even more
> valuable. Janet Borden Inc gallery had a large collection of old
> prints like this, priced between $15k and $250k. (Whether they
> sold or not is another matter though).
>
> http://www.janetbordeninc.com/
>
> I guess the day will come when holographic instant images are
> the "new thing", and digital lose its place as the current method.
> Couple that, with the fact that we might be dead by then, and at
> time, you'll REALLY see our prints sell for outlandish amounts...
>
> MTucker
>
>
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