[Leica] Re:digital transformation

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Me thinks thou hast a screw loose. In these, the waning days of silver
printing, my daughter makes about $13 per hour as a black and white
printer - at a very high-end lab - doing work for some of the biggest
names at places such as Magnum. If I were you I'd advise the kids to
learn to master Photoshop - or maybe burger flipping rather than black
and white printing. :-)

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[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Scott McLoughlin
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 6:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:digital transformation


Me'thinks you're right. How much does it cost to have a nice sculpture
made of oneself, or a fine oil painting? AFAIK, craft costs.

Scott

Adam Bridge wrote:

>Nobody ask me but I think that in a few decades there will be a very 
>high-end market for entirely analog (wet-darkroom) photographic works 
>and it will be because there will be few practitioners of the art, 
>materials will be hard to come by, so the work will be seen as clearly 
>the work of an individual, an artisan and will represent some hours of 
>that person's work which went into making a particular print so that 
>even if many are made there will be differences between them (an 
>essential part of what will lend the print its value.)
>
>So train those kids so they find joy in the darkroom. With talent and 
>luck they could step into a very lucrative world.
>
>Of course I could be TOTALLY wrong. But look at the price of hand-made 
>high quality furniture these days. It's not just the wood that gives it

>value.
>
>Adam
>
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