[Leica] (SPAM: ?) Re: (SPAM: ?) Re: Photo show dissent

[Frank Filippone]

True fact, however the University of AZ have decided to allow only students
with need to have access to the original or copy negatives of the originals.
We went there this year to look at the original prints, which now have also
been locked up for the public at large to not see.  Never (?)  again to be
seen by mere mortals.
And the negatives are now never to be experimented with to produce a new
interpretation of a well known theme.

While AA's and others' intentions may be   perfectly clear, after the
donation is made and the artist is dead, the rules change. 

For the record, AA was both a business man and a lover of new technology.
He experimented with Dupont, Kodak, and Polaroid as examples.  He would have
loved AF, AE, auto anything, digital sensors, laser printers, scanners,
computers, PS,  and anything else that was new and allowed him new ways to
get new or better interpretations.

Frank Filippone
Red735i at verizon.net


> 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