Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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