[pure-silver] A Walk Through the Exhibition
- From: "Stein" <rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:04:13 +0800
Dear Friends,
Just back from my week's holiday in Melbourne. If that seems a strange
place to go to escape from care, consider the fact that they have hotels, hot
running water, and bookshops. My days of camping in a hoochie with a rifle and
a billy of tea are over....
They also have the National Gallery of Victoria - this last week exhibiting
a Man Ray room with many of his famous photographs. I am assuming that what I
saw were many originals, but I am unsure whether I saw final prints or just
darkroom work prints. In any case I was somewhat taken aback by them.
Not from an artistic standpoint, I hasten to add - I have several books on
Man Ray and his assistants and recognised many of the images. What puzzled me
was their presentation.
Small. Dark. Raggedy-edged. Crumpled and flattened-out. Spotty. Bronzing
over. All matted beautifully, but sometimes lost in the center of a vast frame.
I'm talking about a 6 cm x 9 cm image in a 12 in x 16 in frame. And smaller in
larger. Some images up to 11 x 14 but none what I would have come to believe
was an exhibition size.
Is this what happens at other international exhibitions? None of the images
looked like the posters used for the advertising - these were closer to what I
had seen in books. I am wondering a little cynically if the look of some
photographers is made by their printer and indeed the publisher's printer
rather than themselves.
Still fascinating images nevertheless - enjoyed it once I overcame my
surprise.
Uncle Dick
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