Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/27

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: RE: [Leica] WAS: SNAPS & England & the LHS: NOW "snaps use"
From: Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:33:45 -0800

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.