[Leica] Rabs is right

[chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich)]

The only way anyone will see any of my actual prints is if they come 
to my sub-basement lair where I have similar boxes.  Before I put 
them in boxes I mat them all.  I can't stand looking at my prints 
until they are spotted and mounted with an appropriate sized white boarder.




At 05:17 PM 3/4/2010, you wrote:
> > When I was in art school, the photo professor used to tell the 
> students that
> > if you can't make it good, make it big. LOL
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> > I personally prefer smaller, more intimate prints.
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> > Chris Crawford
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>My standard as most photographers was 11x14's for decades. Shows could be
>11x14 but got to me mainly 16x20.
>Sometimes I'd go through an 8x10 phase. As would my friends it seemed.
>Right now my default is an idiosyncratic 5x7. Not a real popular size you
>hear of people printing in  but I like it.
>Not tiny because for more than a year there I was carrying around a
>portfolio of 4x5's in a 4x5 sheet film box. Big enough to see.
>You can have them with you in your top shirt pocket.
>Becaue what good is a print if you don't have it with you?
>A 5x7 you can put it on the wall. Not the ideal size. But go to MOMA or the
>MET and they have thousands of images that size on the walls.
>Here in NY I have a 16x20 portfolio with 18 16x20 darkroom prints in it an 6
>13 x 19's which had been made on my 2200. They look like shrunken heads
>compared to the other prints. Not a good deal. The 16x20 box is a little too
>big to bring to a Starbucks to show a visiting Lug Nut. I'm not going to
>print 17x22's and cut them down to fit that box. I'm just going  to have to
>start a 17x22 inch box. Maybe with wheels on the bottom of one side.
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>I have a  black  one inch thick 11x14 portfolio box filled with a mix of
>darkroom and inkjets.
>My newest box I got here while in NY (3.3 years) is my 11x17 box.
>Which I used to think of as not cut down to 11x14s but these skinny pictures
>have a charm of their own. One of which is you can go into a store and buy
>the stuff. Its what they are selling.  They are mainly  from the display I
>had in Manchester England last year they were behind 22x22 inch sheets of
>glass on the wall at Jem's The Real Camera Company And taken mainly with
>real cameras.
>But a main size is always going to be 8.5 x 11 formally 8x10. I have both 1
>and 2 inch thick boxes of those.
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>I am joining the LUG gallery this week for sure and having just shot the
>best roll of non film I ever have in my life right after midnight February 3
>I'll have that popping up on my calendar every year. And have that be the
>first thing I post to the LUG Gallery.
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>I have an 11x14 overfilled case with handle and zipper holding tear sheets.
>Stuff clipped out of magazines and newspapers. Brochures even.
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>My printer goes to 17x22 but I've not made one yet. Nor bought the paper.
>Its gratifying to think that if I got a tremendous break and a show in
>Chelsea or anywhere (Brooklyn) I could just print it right here right now on
>that. On my 3800.
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>Walk into Adorama or Calumet and the very first thing you have to get
>yourself by is the tall stacks of inkjet paper being sold. Much of it
>quality stuff.  So sombody out there is printing other than me.
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>I went to the graduation show at Tisch photography school  down at NYU it
>was prints on the walls but they did have a projector  going on auto in a
>back room projecting jpegs which people were ignoring for the most part.
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>The currency in the practice of photography now may be jpegs....
>But more and more people are finding out a jpeg can be bad check.
>An hedge fund of pixels that don't play out in the end. Galleries are asking
>to see results before they ok a show.
>The true coin of the realm remains the print. Hard copy.  Money in hand.
>Hang on your wall. Stick in a book or box.
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>The best jpegs I've seen on the LUG is the one of Ted in front of his prints
>at his last show a few weeks ago.  And of Gary Todoroff's shots of his
>murals a few days ago. He needs one with him standing in front or side of
>them though.
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>[Rabs]
>Mark William Rabiner
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