[Leica] Magnum & the Dying Art of Darkroom Printing

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Yes of course as you say such notes would be an insult to any printer good
enough to qualify for the job making a custom print for a pro photog.
One does not micromanage a guy in the darkroom like that. Its nuts.
Counterproductive. Annoying.
I worked as a custom printer in a custom printer lab in the 70's in Webster
Groves, MO. I know what notes to a printer look like.
"darken sky please"

"bring out snap".

"not too dark please".

On a Post-it. Although I didn't invent those till much later.

-- 
Mark R.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/


> From: Tarek Charara <tcharara at mac.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:46:51 +0100
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Magnum & the Dying Art of Darkroom Printing
> 
> Mmmhhh, in my case, I was the photographer and the printer. I never gave 
> any
> notes to a printer, preferring to see his/her interpretation of the 
> negative
> first, then the printer does the annotations according to our discussion 
> over
> the print. In the Magnum article, the notes are clearly from the printer, 
> not
> the photographer.
> 
> All the best from Paris!
> 
> Tarek
> 
> -------------------------------------------------
> Tarek Charara
> <http://www.tarekcharara.com>
> 
> NO ARCHIVE
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Le 8 mars 2012 ? 09:38, Marty Deveney a ?crit :
> 
>> These notes are from the photographer, not the printer.  They mark up
>> a proof like this and then the really fine tuning starts.
>> 
>> Marty
> 
> 
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