Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ansel Adams was right. Digital minilabs like the Fuji Frontier do use lasers to expose silver-based photo papers with images from digital files. Its too bad he never lived to see all that we can do today. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 3/22/15, 10:36 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >AA specifically mentioned "laser beams". >He thought a printing process would come about with laser beams. And >they'd >use that to make better prints of his neg than he did with his darkroom. >They'd look at AA's darkroom prints as a reference of course. > >I think the point is if you are smart you know you have no idea what's >going >to happen and there is an option to consider your negs a living thing to >be >further explored. >I have mixed feelings about if your "work " is you negs or your prints. >I'm feeling know they are very much both. > > >On 3/22/15 8:44 PM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > >> Not really tongue in cheek. AA left all of his negatives with the >> thought that future generations might be able to print them better with >> new technology (as opposed to Brett Weston who destroyed most all of >> his). Gene Smith might have thought that Dr. Schweitzer needed a few >> more natives behind him, I don't know... >> >> Ken >> >> On 3/22/2015 6:34 PM, Richard Man wrote: >>> I presume you might be speaking tongue in cheek, but St. Adam and Gene >>> Smith would have loved photoshop. They would do it as much as possible >>> without post processing, but to say they wouldn't use the best >>>available >>> tools would be silly. >>> On Mar 22, 2015 3:44 PM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Can you imagine Ansel with Photoshop, or Gene Smith? Well, crap, that >>>> darkroom fire burned the top part of my Half Dome neg but I can fix >>>>it in >>>> post... >>>> >>>> Ken >>>> >>>> On 3/22/2015 3:59 PM, Chris Crawford wrote: >>>> >>>>> Larry, that?s a bigoted and historically unsupportable view. >>>>>Photographers >>>>> have combined images to make totally conceptual scenes since the 19th >>>>> century, most famously by Jerry Uelsmann starting in the 1960s and >>>>> continuing to the present day. Ansel Adams famously stated that the >>>>> negative was like a musical score, a starting point that the artist >>>>>uses >>>>> to produce the final performance (the print). >>>>> >>>>> Art and photography are most certainly NOT two different media. >>>>> Photography is an art media, one of many, including painting, >>>>>sculpture, >>>>> ceramics, drawing, and graphic printmaking (eg. Etching, >>>>>lithography). >>>>> There is a lot of overlap, these are not absolutely separate art >>>>>forms. >>>>> The painter, sculptor and printmaker incorporate drawing into their >>>>>work. >>>>> The printmaker can transfer photos to the etching plate. >>>>>Photographers can >>>>> paint and draw on the photo, or manipulate it on the computer, and >>>>> computer graphics can be purely drawing without using photos. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > >-- >Mark William Rabiner >Photographer >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information