[pure-silver] Re: A Walk Through the Exhibition
- From: DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:13:19 +0200
I love huge frames for small images.
Any opinions?
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
On 10/19/04 1:04 AM, "Stein" <rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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