Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/02

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Subject: [Leica] How big can you print a 35mm photo?
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:27:10 +0100
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Because if you make it big enough, it is ART regardless of the intrinsic 
quality of the image.

I have seen out-of-focus shots of puke on the ground in serious galleries, 
blown up to 1x2 meters or so. The hack was called Cindy Sherman.

Nathan

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On Mar 2, 2010, at 9:10 PM, Tina Manley wrote:

> Those are fantastic.  I'm at the other end of the extreme and want people 
> to
> hold my 8x10 prints in their hands to look at the people and feel a
> connection that comes through getting close to the photo.  I totally
> understand that landscape photos are best viewed at a distance, but 
> continue
> to feel that connections between people should be close.  I never have
> understood those huge larger-than-life enlargements that some photographers
> do with portraits.
> 
> Tina
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Gary Todoroff <
> datamaster at northcoastphotos.com> wrote:
> 
>> Great web-site, Jim! It inspired me to post a couple of my largest
>> photographs on display, one of them at 10x15 feet is from only half the
>> frame of a Leica 35mm Velvia transparency:
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Gary+Todoroff/General/HealthSportWallMural.jpg.html
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Gary+Todoroff/General/HolidDayInnMural.jpg.html
>> Gary Todoroff
>> Tree LUGger
>> 
>> 
>> --
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
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