Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have the same print. I agree with everything Henning said. Cheers Jayanand Sent from my iPad > On 21-Sep-2016, at 10:16, Henning Wulff <hjwulff at gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a print I bought through the onlinephotographer.com, alias Mike > Johnston by Paul Caponigro and John-Paul Caponigro, his son. What it is is > an inkjet print of two images on one 17x22 sheet; a black and white by > Paul from a 4x5 that I have really liked since I first saw it in the 60's, > and a colour print by his son that complements it marvellously, taken on > an iPhone 4. If it works, it works. It would not have been better if Paul > had shot his image on a Leica and John-Paul had used a Hasselblad 100mp > back; in fact, that might have been a worse combination. > > Henning Wulff > hjwulff at gmail.com > > > > >> On 2016-09-20, at 1:41 PM, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at >> icloud.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On Sep 20, 2016, at 3:20 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Well I actually never have either old a print from the Lug Gallery or a >>> Facebook gallery. But my body of work grows as I get older and I ain't >>> dead >>> yet. I have in my life sold prints to collectors and had shows in >>> galleries. >> >> Yes. I too have sold prints to collectors; had one man shows in >> galleries; participated in group shows; and curated and judged museum >> shows. >> >> In FACT my most recent ?art print? sale did actually come from someone >> seeing a screen image on Facebook. >> >> It was one of my IR photographs with the M8; >> another camera which you?ve expressed disdain for. >> >> ;~) >> >> As far as I?m concerned collectors will purchase for what ever reasons; >> and not be limited by what they imagine the camera may have to do with it. >> >> I?ve sold SX70 polaroid prints; both straight and manipulated. >> I?ve sold 4x5 and 8x10 polaroid prints. >> I?ve sold silver prints, inkjet prints, RC prints, silkscreen prints, >> stone litho prints, prints from engraved metal and wood blocks; mono >> prints; and I have no doubt if someone loved an image of mine made with >> an iPhone that I could produce a gorgeous print from the file. It will of >> course have the ?look? of the tools used in the making; just like all the >> technologies which have preceded the current technology: whether >> ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, collodion prints, tintypes, the 1960s prints >> from extremely grainy 35 mm negatives which many loved and bought, the >> gorgeous 12x20 contact print that currently hangs in my living room, and >> two other living rooms of ?my collectors?? that?s what I love about >> photography? no limits? however small? however large? however >> ?alternative?? it all speaks to me? as long as the creator has something >> interesting to say - visually and with a serious interest in aesthetics. >> >> fond regards, >> >> George >> >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.linkedin.com/imagist >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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