[pure-silver] Re: Bad Photo! Down! Bad Photo....!
- From: Sauerwald Mark <mark_sauerwald@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 19:20:45 -0800 (PST)
Uncle Dick, which is the greater sin - to waste good
paper on a bad image, or to use bad paper for a good
image? It seems that using bad paper on bad images
shouldn't be all that bad....
--- Stein <rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> My deepest level of graphic gloom was reached in
> the 1970's when the
> street-wise happening hippy
> counterculturegrittyreality farce was enacted in
> Australia. You may well have had it earlier in North
> America or Europe. I
> participated in my own shameful little way with
> sneak attacks on hapless
> drunks lying in the park ( A good subject - they lie
> still long enough to
> use really slow shutter speeds ) and would-be
> with-its at the local
> university. They wouldn't hold still for education
> or washing, much less
> photography, but I had a Vivitar speedlight and I
> managed to make them look
> worse that they actually were.
>
> It was a terrible way to spend an evening but
> it got worse in the
> darkroom. I bought paper at the local chemist and
> little cans of Dektol
> powder and managed to convert the out of date paper
> into fresh areas of
> either black or white. With fingerprints.
> Fortunately I did not know how to
> flatten the prints after they were dried and they
> have curled up into little
> pellets. I have saved them and plan to donate them
> to the section of the
> museum that deals with blue asbestos and unexploded
> ordnance*.
>
> It all came right in the end, as I discovered
> that people can look good
> if you do the right thing by them and also don't buy
> outdated paper. It
> engendered a search for beauty that still goes on
> and fortunately I still
> am able to put my distinctive fingerprint on many of
> the pictures that come
> out of my studio. Generally on one of the faces.
>
> Uncle Dick
>
> * In case you think I invent these things, I assure
> you that I can take you
> to our state museum and put your nervous little
> hands on just such items,
> carefully preserved and catalogued. On my last visit
> to the armoury the
> curator refused to disarm the weapon, stating that
> it was a historic
> artifact. Ah, history with a bang....
>
> PS: In case people get discouraged looking at
> current trends in bad
> photography, I recommend them to a study of some of
> the written material
> turned out by people seeking PhD's and other
> jewellery from liberal arts
> schools. I recently bought one written by a lady
> with an agenda from
> Melbourne and for the first time in 20 years I could
> not finish it. Didn't
> even get past the second chapter. I initially
> thought it might have been a
> student rag perpetrated for April 1 but the cost of
> the binding and the
> number of footnotes seem to preclude that. I stopped
> myself from hurling it
> into the fire and have settled for giving it away as
> a Christmas present to
> one of the digital photographers.
>
>
>
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