Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I used to think that Adams' work in dorm room posters was exaggerated and artificially accentuated, especially since when I was growing up, we had a signed Moon over Half Dome hanging in our house (which by comparison was a bit cream-colored and not so, ahem, "HDR" as the repros). But the older I get, and the more I read about Adams, the more convinced I am that he would have been a huge Lightroom fan... By the way, I've always felt that the issue with numbered editions is not promising to do so few; it's the suggestion that you would promise to do *so many* prints. Dante On Apr 10, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > My unfortunate example which implies an Edward Weston complicates and blurs > the issue as his sons Cole and Brett did his prints after he was stricken > with Parkinson's under his rather close supervision and they go for tens of > thousands and no one complains. That kind of thing like this pretty much > stands alone. Also my term" cranking out" does not fill the bill as you > say > as to make a serious print is not at all factory like and requires a lot of > time and water and wasted paper. > > Ansel A. was excited by the idea that after he was dead people would be > making prints from his not destroyed negs with "Laser beams." > In other words technologies away from the tradition darkroom slodge and > drudge. - involving stuff we can only imagine. > It did not worry him that they may not in effect do the in effect dodging > and burning right or if the executors of his estate lost money. > I think as a result they made have made not lost money - you can scan one > of his negs on the latest cutting edge scanner they'll invent tomorrow. > This excites not offends me. And I'll gong to emulate that approached. > Assuming that when the time comes anybody gives a rats ass about my body > of work. > > > > > > On 4/10/13 10:40 AM, "Lottermoser George" <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: > >> >> On Apr 10, 2013, at 4:14 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >>> Why buy Pepper #6 for huge bucks if the artist is still alive cranking >>> them out? Or his son is? >> >> Except that "cranking out" dismisses the actual amount of time and >> materials >> required to make a print which its creator would actually sign. >> >> What is the total number of Pepper #6 prints in existence? >> How many prints of Pepper #6 did Edward Weston make and sign himself? >> How many did another family member make and sign? >> >> I'd guess that Pepper #6 prints >> in fine condition >> signed by a Weston >> remain relatively rare. >> Why? >> Because it's not all that easy to make a fine print. >> >> Regards, >> George Lottermoser >> george at imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information