Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Don, when I said copies, I meant "(silver gelatin) prints made by either St. Ansel himself, or Alan Ross etc." I have seen many variations, from his old style less contrasty prints to the more contrasty later prints. On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 1:55 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Hi Richard, I am not sure that you would call silver prints coming out of > the Ansel Adams gallery copies. Adams hired people to print his negatives > to an exact written procedure and they were clearly marked as to who took > the image(Adams) and who printed it. Not as valuable as a print by the > master but still a very faithful example of what Adams envisioned when he > took and printed the image. When I was in Yosemite many years ago now 8x10 > contact prints were pretty reasonable. > > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 3:46 PM Richard Man <richard at richardman.photo> > wrote: > > > Oh yes, I just finally bought a print of Moonrise. I have seen many > silver > > gelatin copies in galleries and museums, including 24x30 and larger. This > > $30 poster is definitely more than good enough. > > > > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 1:38 PM Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> > wrote: > > > > > For you personally, I don't see any problem with having a bias. It's > just > > > what you prefer. No one should dictate whether you should eat sushi or > a > > > hamburger right? ;-) > > > > > > Galleries that cater to "dead old photographers" still prefer silver > > > gelatin prints. It has a certain cachet that might or might not be > there. > > > > > > OTOH, I am now printing mostly on "fine arts" paper, mostly on kozo and > > > washi, and have gone way past "silver gelatin". > > > > > > > > > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 8:59 AM Richard Clompus via LUG < > > > lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > > > > > >> I?ve purchased fine art photographs from galleries over the years from > > >> photographers that have excited me. Usually they are from > photographers > > >> that I read about during my college years. I?d love to have a silver > > >> halide print from Henri Cartier-Bresson or Eugene Smith but at $30,000 > > USD, > > >> they are out of my league and only a dream. > > >> > > >> Even though there are really nice looking fine art b&w prints from ink > > >> jet pigments, I somehow don?t give them as much respect as a silver > > print > > >> when purchasing as a fine art print for my walls. > > >> > > >> Does anyone else have this bias? > > >> > > >> Be well, > > >> Richard > > >> > > >> Richard Clompus > > >> California > > >> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Leica Users Group. > > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > // richard http://imagecraft.com > > > Beyond Arduino - When you're ready to get serious... > > > JumpStart C Tools for Atmel AVR and Cortex-M, The Better Alternative > > > > > > > > > -- > > "Some People Drive, We Are Driven" > > https://richardman.photo > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > -- > Don > don.dory at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- // richard http://imagecraft.com Beyond Arduino - When you're ready to get serious... JumpStart C Tools for Atmel AVR and Cortex-M, The Better Alternative