Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/25
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Dan Cardish wrote:
> Get to know a master printer, and work with him/her over a long period
> of
> time. This is probably better than a good photographer but mediocre
> darkroom worker trying to muddle through with making the prints himself.
>
> Off the top of my head I can think of Robert Maplethorpe and Helmut
> Newton
> who relied on others for their printing. There are probably many other
> examples.
Richard Avedon is another example. One of his books has a section of a
print with his dodging instructions on it. 'Frightening' really isn't the
word, I had to have a lie down in a darkened room with a lightly boiled
aspirin just *thinking* about trying to print it with those instructions!
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(+44) 171 272 8908 | can there be in that?" (David Hockney)