Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As I recall Ansel's posters were being laser printed while he was still alive, and that was the basis for his prediction. Ken On 3/22/2015 9:36 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > AA specifically mentioned "laser beams". > He thought a printing process would come about with laser beams. And they'd > use that to make better prints of his neg than he did with his darkroom. > They'd look at AA's darkroom prints as a reference of course. > > I think the point is if you are smart you know you have no idea what's > going > to happen and there is an option to consider your negs a living thing to be > further explored. > I have mixed feelings about if your "work " is you negs or your prints. > I'm feeling know they are very much both. > > > On 3/22/15 8:44 PM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > >> Not really tongue in cheek. AA left all of his negatives with the >> thought that future generations might be able to print them better with >> new technology (as opposed to Brett Weston who destroyed most all of >> his). Gene Smith might have thought that Dr. Schweitzer needed a few >> more natives behind him, I don't know... >> >> Ken >> >> On 3/22/2015 6:34 PM, Richard Man wrote: >>> I presume you might be speaking tongue in cheek, but St. Adam and Gene >>> Smith would have loved photoshop. They would do it as much as possible >>> without post processing, but to say they wouldn't use the best available >>> tools would be silly. >>> On Mar 22, 2015 3:44 PM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Can you imagine Ansel with Photoshop, or Gene Smith? Well, crap, that >>>> darkroom fire burned the top part of my Half Dome neg but I can fix it >>>> in >>>> post... >>>> >>>> Ken >>>> >>>> On 3/22/2015 3:59 PM, Chris Crawford wrote: >>>> >>>>> Larry, that?s a bigoted and historically unsupportable view. >>>>> Photographers >>>>> have combined images to make totally conceptual scenes since the 19th >>>>> century, most famously by Jerry Uelsmann starting in the 1960s and >>>>> continuing to the present day. Ansel Adams famously stated that the >>>>> negative was like a musical score, a starting point that the artist >>>>> uses >>>>> to produce the final performance (the print). >>>>> >>>>> Art and photography are most certainly NOT two different media. >>>>> Photography is an art media, one of many, including painting, >>>>> sculpture, >>>>> ceramics, drawing, and graphic printmaking (eg. Etching, lithography). >>>>> There is a lot of overlap, these are not absolutely separate art forms. >>>>> The painter, sculptor and printmaker incorporate drawing into their >>>>> work. >>>>> The printmaker can transfer photos to the etching plate. Photographers >>>>> can >>>>> paint and draw on the photo, or manipulate it on the computer, and >>>>> computer graphics can be purely drawing without using photos. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >