[pure-silver] Re: not so pure silver

 
On Friday, March 27, 2009, at 04:54PM, "Richard Knoppow" 
<dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>From: "Laurence Cuffe" <cuffe@xxxxxxx>
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>Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 9:31 AM
>Subject: [pure-silver] Re: not so pure silver
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>> Last year I went to see an exhibition of Edward Weston's 
>> prints at the Hartford Atheneum. They were hung in a 
>> gallery next to one which contained a wonderful collection 
>> of paintings from the Hudson river school.   It was an 
>> unfortunate combination, because after looking at the 
>> paintings, the photographs were dead.
>> All the best
>> Larry Cuffe
>
>     I wonder which prints they had. Some of the Weston 
>prints, for instance the ones at the Huntington, are not 
>very good. Actually they are pretty bad, the reproductions 
>in the exhibit catalogue being much better. OTOH most of the 
>Weston prints at the Getty are much better.
>     But, perhaps its not the prints but the difference in 
>the content of the images. I must be frank that I have 
>rarely seen any photographs which have the impact of the 
>best paintings.
>
>--
>Richard Knoppow
>Los Angeles, CA, USA
>dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Googling it seems that it was in 2006, here's the blurb for the Westons:- 
"Drawn from the collection of The Dayton Art Institute and the collection of 
Edward Weston’s grandnephew, this exhibition of more than one hundred vintage 
gelatin silver prints serves as a retrospective of a pioneering modernist and 
an undisputed master of twentieth-century photography." All the prints were 
8x10, and even though there were a few color prints from California, they 
couldn't hold a candle to the Hudson river paintings. The Hudson river school 
is, to be polite, photo-shoped landscape painting on steroids with a touch of  
South American magic realism. (as a vising Irishman to the states, I'm prepared 
to accept correction on this) Most of them were about 2ft by 3ft and it was 
just no contest, particularly as assessed by my 8 and 10 year old daughters.
If some one can tell me that the Dayton art institute prints are poor, it would 
be reassuring, but I think it was just a contrast effect. 
All the best
Larry Cuffe
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