Digital BW, The Print

I have an InternetExplorer folder of Bookmarks/Favorites for 
many of the galleries that I saw at the AIPAD show this weekend. 
I'm not quite sure how to upload an exported Favorities file, but I'll 
send it to Antonis, and maybe he can upload it in our Bookmarks 
section of this board. If anyone else wants it, write me offlist and 
I'll attach it back to you. There are about thirty or forty sites.

Lowest price that I saw quoted was $600; highest price was a 
cool $250,000, for something that I should remember, but don't 
at the moment.

My worst favorite was a giant color Cprint, about four feet wide by 
about six feet high -- a close up of a fishing bait with a face 
painted on it. It sucked beyond belief. (It probably sold for fifty 
grand). My best favorites were about three hundred and fourteen 
other images that were remarkable.

I saw no print labeled "inkjet"; I saw one print labeled "Giclee". I 
saw a bunch of bad frames. I saw a bunch of beautiful women -- 
not in the photographs -- roaming around the show.

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....

-MTucker (mark@...)

--- 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

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "marktuckerdotcom" 
<mark@m...> wrote:
 
> My worst favorite was a giant color Cprint, about four feet wide by 
> about six feet high -- a close up of a fishing bait with a face 
> painted on it. It sucked beyond belief. (It probably sold for fifty 
> grand).

I also didn't care for the fishing lure photo. But I overheard the 
gallery owner tell a collector that this photographer's first two 
collections sold out immediately. 

> I saw no print labeled "inkjet"; I saw one print labeled "Giclee". 

I was also disappointed with how few digital prints there were, 
especially given that the stated theme of the show was "From 
daguerrotype to digital. A splendid mix." I missed the "giclee" 
print, but I did see the work of David Fokos, who labels his work 
something like "Fuji crystal archive archival print." Love his work.

> I saw a bunch of beautiful women -- 
> not in the photographs -- roaming around the show.

Amen to that, especially some of the booth hostesses.

> 
> 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....

As the David Fokos example indicates, at least some galleries and 
collectors are embracing digital prints, so I'm encouraged by that 
(although his own galleries play down the digital aspect).

> 
> -MTucker (mark@m...)