[Leica] IMG: Image to hang in Wisconsin Photography 2009

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

Thanks for looking and commenting Ted.
Much appreciated.
and of course
in total agreement.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
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On Jul 23, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Ted Grant wrote:

> George Lottermoser offered:
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> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Image to hang in Wisconsin Photography 2009
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> <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=1228>
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> Wisconsin Photography 2009
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> August 9th through November 28th
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> RAM's Wustum Museum of Fine Arts
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> 2519 Northwestern Avenue
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> Racine, WI 53404-2299
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> http://www.ramart.org <http://www.ramart.org/>
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> Hi George,
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> 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! :-(
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> 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..
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> "There isn't anything more beautiful than a big black and white  
> photograph.
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> It does something that television can never do. ....by  HARRY  
> REASONER. TV
> Anchorman
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> 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!
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> 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."
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> 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.
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> Oh well maybe I'm showing my "How we did it in the old days!"  :-(
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>  But we were right! :-)
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> Cheers,
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> ted
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