Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/17

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Subject: [Leica] buying Ansel portrait?
From: ealadner at comcast.net (Eric Ladner)
Date: Sat Sep 17 22:41:48 2005
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On Sep 17, 2005, at 10:01 PM, leo wrote:

> Morley Baer obviously had copy negatives made. I saw a print at 
> Photography West Gallery in Carmel that had a distinct dot pattern. I 
> saw the same print, offered as an original, in a print auction.
>
If it had a dot pattern, it wasn't a print from a copy negative, it was 
a halftone. Morley would never have countenanced selling one as an 
original, and I doubt that Photography West would, either. There are 
certainly uses for copying in photography, and some of the results 
could legitimately be called originals--I think Edward Weston copied 
4x5 negatives to 8x10 to make contact prints--but if a halftone is 
offered as an original photographic print, something is very wrong!

--Eric Ladner


In reply to: Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] buying Ansel portrait?)
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