[pure-silver] Re: Organic?

Mark Blackwell wrote:
<SNIP Of Precise Thinking>

> It is one of the problems with language, especially the written
> word. Context is often difficult if not impossible to determine. Yet
> we should be as careful as possible to portray the meaning.


All very well said, and I wholly agree.  But the problem with the
term "organic" as commonly used is not that it is changing meaning,
it is that it is *obscuring* meaning.  This, no doubt, is in no
small part  due to the marketer of "organic" products who've
discovered that you can sell a lot with guilt and misdirection.


> Now is a print organic or not. Well these are often the people that
> would drive with their knees an inch from their chins in a Yugo that
> gets 900mph at 900 feet per hour. What would I do? First I'd make a
> print on fiber based paper and tell them everything used in making
> the print was "All Natural" in that everything used to make it came
> from nature. We may have doctored it a bit. grin.

I rather like this.  To the best of my knowledge, everything in my
darkroom is "natural" (derived from nature), "organic" (produced
by carbon-based living beings), pesticide free (none need), 
and free range (I walk untethered therein).  I wonder if I could
use this in the promotion of my prints ...



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