Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/04
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Not the definition of photography - however the definitions: Photographic print, photographic negative, photographic slide, photographic transparency, photographic positive - as meaning light sensitive emulsions on substrates which have been exposed to light and therefore hold an image - seems very different in fact, substance and aesthetics than - image data residing as code, in various magnetic, cd or other memory systems which require powered hardware and software to read, print and display as an ³image.²
This is very up for me as Iıve just mounted and installed a dozen prints in an exhibition which I call EDGE: 3 photographic prints from large format negatives (2 - 12x20 contact prints, 1 enlargement from 4x5), 1 photographic enlargement from xPan neg, 4 inkjet prints from digital captures, 4 inkjet prints from scans of 35mm film.
To my eye, mind and heart - in fact, substance and aesthetics: I feel a clear movement from photographic printing (print making) into the world of digital print making. Both methods create an object which relate to photography - most folks wonıt even know what theyıre looking at - however - as I worked on and finished the prints - I experienced such huge differences in fact, substance and aesthetics - that I simply must clarify my use of the language - for me:
a photographic image = recorded on light sensitive film or other substrate
a digital image capture = recorded on ccd, scanning back, et al
a photographic print = printed on light sensitive emulsion coated substrate
an inkjet print = an inkjet print
With those definitions, I can discuss the prints and their properties: aesthetically, historically, technically, etc..
bdcolen@earthlink.net (bdcolen)8/4/03
>definition of photography
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