Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]God I hate going to a gallery and looking at a wall full of "gelatin silver" prints - even when they're nice snaps. The value system implicit in that naming convention (and "giclee") irks me no end. Paul - -----Original Message----- From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 3:40 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] WAS: SNAPS & England & the LHS: NOW "snaps use" Nathan Wajsman wrote: > > Hi Ted, > > You may just have answered a question I was asking myself. Next month I am > participating in a group exhibition by Viewfinders, the English-language > photography club in Brussels. My prints are made on my Epson inkjet, and I was > wondering whether I should call them "giclée" or "inkjet" prints.... > > Nathan > Call them giclee prints is no more pretenious than calling them silver prints.... How about calling them them photographs..;-) B. D.