Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted (and others who responded with similar advice): My question was a bit tongue in cheek and I had no idea that it would spark a whole thread! I could not dream of calling them anything but photographs and I detest the pretentious BS names people use, especially "giclée"--I guess a French word sounds artsier than "inkjet". Maybe I am bit thick, but it took me several gallery visits to realize that a "silver gelatin" print was just an ordinary photograph printed in a normal wet darkroom... Nathan Ted Grant wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > Just call them what they are.... your photographs! > > Simply because today "prints of amazing quality" not necessarily great > content, are being made that just blow yer socks of at how beautiful they > are. > > By the same token we have amazing quality prints still being made in the wet > darkroom, not necessarily great content, that just blow yer socks of at how > beautiful they are. > > So how you made the prints to me is completely irrelevant as it's the > content that counts not the medium they are printed on. Unless one is a > stuffy museum curator! ;-) > > Does that not sound reasonable? > ted > Ted Grant Photography Limited > www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/