[pure-silver] Re: not so pure silver

Wow. If Weston's photos looked dead, what hope is there for the rest of us. 

--shannon


On Mar 27, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Laurence Cuffe wrote:
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
On Friday, March 27, 2009, at 11:16AM, "William Harting" <wm.harting@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I once read advice saying to keep black and white images together and color 
images together and show the black and white first in a presentation.

I usually ignore this, though sometimes it seems correct.

Congratulations on the show, hope you will post it in due course.

-bill h

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Shannon Stoney <
shannonstoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a show coming up in Abilene about an adobe house in Presidio, TX. I have 12 black and white prints and I am fixing to get three color prints made. This is the first time I've had a show with color and b&w together, and I'm not sure how it's going to look, but I'm going to do it anyway.
Then I started thinking about another project I'm working on, which started out as b&w holga panoramas about domestic animals. Then I found some old color negs with the same format: Holga, animals. But they're color! Some of them are cool, though. So now I want to have that project be mixed color 
and B&W too.
The color ones have to be printed by a lab, because I don't print color at home and anyway some are transparencies. I guess I could make them gray 
scale and have them printed that way by the lab.
I'm just wondering: do people on this list think that it looks strange or disconcerting to have color and silver in the same show, by the same person? You see group shows all the time with them mixed up, but then you're not seeing all the pictures as one body of work. Maybe if one person did them all, and there are color and b&w, it means there are 2 bodies of work? I 
also am thinking of including some photogravures in the series about
animals.

Once I saw a show in Houston by a photographer who had documented her
mother's life over about 20 years.  She had silver, color, video,
everything. It didn't bother me at all. I wonder why we have this "rule" 
that you should have a "unified body of work."
Also I have noticed recently that filmmakers are mixing b&w and color in 
the same film:  "I'm Not There" was like that, and "Shine a Light."

--shannon



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