Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George Lottermoser offered: Subject: [Leica] IMG: Image to hang in Wisconsin Photography 2009 <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=1228> Wisconsin Photography 2009 August 9th through November 28th RAM's Wustum Museum of Fine Arts 2519 Northwestern Avenue Racine, WI 53404-2299 http://www.ramart.org <http://www.ramart.org/> Hi George, First, congratulations on a photo in the exhibition. However, I agree with your comments whole heartedly about a "REAL PRINT" or prints or on a CD being presented for a gallery showing. Let alone a "judge or committee" making an evaluation of just another image on the screen! :-( We can pretty well see the difference image to mage good, bad or ugly on a computer or projected screen. But I'd like to offer a quotation I found some years ago that kind of fits this situation in regard to a print and what we might say is a projected image.. "There isn't anything more beautiful than a big black and white photograph. It does something that television can never do. ....by HARRY REASONER. TV Anchorman There isn't any question a print in hand adds to the visual appreciation in the overall quality of the photograph. Sure we're all pretty well accustomed to the screen image and making an assessment, nevertheless a print in hand you hold "and feel" creating a completely different sensation of quality, the projected image does not! The image to be hung in a gallery burned to CD makes the photograph "just another CD photo like every other today picture sans feel of quality." In the case of the photo industry, certainly those of advertising and news, fine a CD burn fits 99.9% of requirements for the idiocy of today's demands. "I need it yesterday" even when you know it's going to sit on the art directors desk for another 48 hours before everyone can look at it. But a Gallery showing? One would think the judging should be carefully carried out "one print at a time!" Discussion if necessary while it sits under an examining light. Oh well maybe I'm showing my "How we did it in the old days!" :-( But we were right! :-) Cheers, ted