Digital BW, The Print

Mark, et al....

This afternoon my wife and I were having lunch at this little outdoor Thai
restaurant here in Delray Beach.  The weather was lovely and people were
strolling up and down the street. All of a sudden who walks over and sits
down.....Vincent Versache. We bagan to talk about digital image capture (by
camera - no film) and inkjet printing. I mentioned to hime some of what we
have been discussing here on this forum. He smiled and called all of the
diehard film stalwarts "infidels".

I guess I am one of them as I shoot film and scan. Anyway, he is now selling
10 Epson 10000 24"x30" color pigment images a month at $1000 per image. I
was a bit surprised, but not really as his "fine art" images are striking.
We discussed the state of the art with respect to "in-camera" capture and
talked about megapixel developments. I guess the bottom line is on a world
wide basis the sale of digital cameras, both consumer and pro has
rivatalized a sluggish market.

We have a Photo Pro-Shop as part of the Palm Beach Photographic Centre. We
sell equipmernt and supplies at 10% over cost to students and the public. In
the past 5 years, the number of new film cameras and film has decreased
dramatically.  Our film sales are down over 50% from just 3 years ago.  I am
told that customers are once again coming in and buying Canon D30's and
other digitals at a furious pace. As a result, photgraphy book sales, and
other accessories have increased as well. There is an excitement in
photography. People are saying that they feel like they did when that first
image appeared in the Dektol years ago.

My opinion, the digital revolution in photography is serving to revitalize
and excite.

-Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "culturalvisions" <frank@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 5:08 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: AIPAD Galleries List


> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "marktuckerdotcom"
> <mark@m...> wrote:
> > If inkjet is gonna make any inroads, we gotta do something
> > different. Whatever we be doin' now ain't getting the job done.
> > Those galleries look at inkjet just like we look at the subjects of
> > Shelby Lee Adams photographs....
> >
> Mark,  FYI, last year the New York Times Magazine ran a fashion
> spread by Shelby with his subjects as models.  Did his subjects
> get paid?  They got to keep the clothes.
>
> My 2 cents on inkjets in galleries is to keep moving ahead,  I'm
> not selling a lot of silver work, so why worry about the inkjets.  If I
> was selling work, I'd pay someone else to silver print it and I'd
> keep doing my inkjets.
>
> To paraphrase Stan Sherer, "We may be out of the dark, but we
> aren't out of the woods when it come to digital."
>
> Frank
>
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