Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]He was smart enough to know that he didn't now everything. And that the silver gelatin paradigm he was settled into might not be the big thing happening in the decades to come. In fairness to his business sense I don't think he did all that well till in his last years he got that business manager to take over so his prints then quickly went from 40 bucks to 400 bucks to 4000 bucks. When I was finishing up school in 1975 you could get them for 40 bucks. That said AA on them and were maybe made by John Sexton.. With a Jobo. People are under the impression that he was a fine art photographer which he certainly was but the bottom line was he was running the whole time a commercial photography studio. You could hire him to shoot your new bar and grill you were opening up. He was a photog for hire and had bills to pay. He liked to put gas in his car and eat. On 3/23/15 10:21 AM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net> wrote: > True fact, however the University of AZ have decided to allow only students > with need to have access to the original or copy negatives of the > originals. > We went there this year to look at the original prints, which now have also > been locked up for the public at large to not see. Never (?) again to be > seen by mere mortals. > And the negatives are now never to be experimented with to produce a new > interpretation of a well known theme. > > While AA's and others' intentions may be perfectly clear, after the > donation is made and the artist is dead, the rules change. > > For the record, AA was both a business man and a lover of new technology. > He experimented with Dupont, Kodak, and Polaroid as examples. He would > have > loved AF, AE, auto anything, digital sensors, laser printers, scanners, > computers, PS, and anything else that was new and allowed him new ways to > get new or better interpretations. > > Frank Filippone > Red735i at verizon.net > > >> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/