RE: [Leica] Navajo's imperfection

[Jeremy Kime <jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk>]

This rang a photographic bell with me.

I bought one of a re-printed set of Julia Margaret Cameron's photos a while
back. Superb reproduction, beautifully toned, lovely p.q. but I was
disappointed to see white hair marks on the print.
So very very carefully, after mixing exactly the right colour, a deep ochre,
I touched out these marks on the print before I framed it.
Six months later I read a biography of the famous lady photographer to find
that she insisted on leaving in all those imperfections on the print. A sort
of serendipity to the construction of the picture as a whole.
And I'd gone and taken it away!

Jem

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Eric Welch [SMTP:ewelch@ponyexpress.net]
> 
> Whatever happened
> to the tradition that the Navajos had that imperfection was necessary in
> their work? Now that's an idea I can buy. 
> -- 
> 
> Eric Welch
>