Digital BW, The Print

I went home to visit my mother in south Texas not
too long ago and she showed me a picture a friend from
New York had given to her as a gift.  It was of the
Brooklyn bridge with lower Manhattan in the
background.  It was sepia toned, 5x7, matted and in a
plastic sleeve.  Nice picture.  After a few days, I
decided to take a very close look at it and realized
that it was an inkjet print! Ah-ha!  I had this
wonderful revelation, that, to some extent put me at
ease.  
  I'll admit, I *sometimes* feel people look at my
work if only to find evidence that it's not a wet
print(though I freely admit it's not).  Then, here I
am, an "experienced" printmaker with an inkjet print
in front of my face and I didn't even notice.  I guess
for not seeing much fine art print making where I am
(Dallas), it was refeshing to unexpectedly be on the
other side..  to be the audience.  And to be
impressed.
  Now I don't mean to suggest that we're all out to
"fool" the public into thinking our prints are
darkroom prints(I feel it's an art in of it's own), it
was just nice to finally be unexpectedly "fooled" by
one printmaker to another.
 -Actually thought "hmm, I wonder if this is from
anyone on the list?" ;)

 -Daniel Perez


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Daniel,

must've  felt nice to discover you couldn't tell a digital black-and-white from a 
darkroom print. I had the same experience several times, and at least once in 
the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego where a few piezoBW prints 
were thrown in with wet prints.

However, we are still in the era of seeking legitimacy for our prints in the world 
of collectors, museums and galleries. Inkjet prints - especially if you call them 
that and don't use French names for them - don't have the cache of "toned 
silver prints". Yet.

Antonis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Daniel Perez <tronicart@y...> wrote:
After a few days, I

> decided to take a very close look at it and realized
> that it was an inkjet print! Ah-ha!  I had this
> wonderful revelation, that, to some extent put me at
> ease.