Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Summicron1@aol.com wrote: >The tool is 5 percent. He is the other 95. Whoever does his printing deserves >a hunk of that 95 percent as well. As one who labors long in the dark, I know >how much a difference that makes as well. Which is why I am always uneasy about the (let's be frank about it) fawning which goes on w.r.t. HCB or Salgado. Every time you see one of "their" images, you are really looking at the work of often unamed technicians. After all, any moron in monkey-cam-mode can click-click- click and strike heroic photographer-like poses... it takes a true visual artist however (working alone in a darkroom or with a scanner) to turn a B&W or colour negative into a final magnificent image. No matter how much of a head-case Eugene Smith was, he at least created the entireity of his images - from the inital click to the final, dry-mounted print. Ditto Ansel Adams or Kertesz. I admire them for this. <CONTROVERSY> A photographer who doesn't do their own printing is just like a painter who only does the intial sketches and leaves the brushwork up to someone else... </CONTROVERSY> :?) Regds, Andrew Nemeth <http://4020.net> -> photos, 360° panoramic vrs, sounds <http://nemeng.com> -> vr java applets, leica faq, tech info