[pure-silver] Re: The Quest and My Heresy??

  • From: David Starr <davestarr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:55:57 -0500

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:10:54 -0500,  Nick Zentena <zentena@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Friday 15 December 2006 19:04, Bill Stephenson wrote:
>> Tim, I have to disagree. How the image reaches the paper has no more
>> relevance to the impact, interest, or what have you, than how you get
>> to the Grand Canyon affects how the Canyon looks.
>
>       Is that really true? Does the trip in no way colour the world you see? 
>
>       Take two people. One works all his life to earn some sum of money. The 
> other 
>wins the lottery. Are their views on money going to be the same? They've both 
>ended up in the same place.
>
>       Take somebody shooting portraits with an AF autoeverything 35mm chasing 
>little kids around. Is there view going to be no different then somebody 
>trying to take portraits with an 11x14 studio camera? Using the same studio 
>camera to take pictures of the same kids?
>
>       How can't the process/tools not impact the image? 
>
>       Nick

The process does impact the image.  I once saw an exhibit of some of Irving
Penn's work.  The silver prints were beautiful, but the platinum prints of the
same subject blew me away.  I'm not talking about technical quality, like the
difference between 35mm and 11x14, I mean the aesthetic differences.  For me,
"Moonrise" is a rather mundane subject made beautiful by AA's darkroom skills.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Retired Shop Rat: 14,647 days in a GM plant.
Now I can do what I enjoy: Large Format Photography

Web Site: www.destarr.com
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
============================================================================================================To
 unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account 
(the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and 
unsubscribe from there.

Other related posts: