[pure-silver] Re: The Quest and My Heresy??
- From: "Tim Rudman" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:27:13 -0000
Well I guess we disagree Bill - which is fine.
However, I never suggested that one needs to be able to see what film or
developer has been used in the makeup of an image, I would agree thus far.
However, the printing processes used, the techniques employed, the toners
used and a host of other things can and often do 'make' an image realise the
potential of the artist's vision. It's fine if you don't like it. It's good
if someone does. We fortunately don't all share the same aesthetics in any
art form.
Tim
http://www.worldoflithprinting.com
http://www.thegalleryonthegreen.co.uk/events/coldsnap.html
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Sent: 16 December 2006 00:04
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Subject: [pure-silver] Re: The Quest and My Heresy??
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. Fly and take a cab; drive;
hitchhike; hike - whatever. The Canyon is not affected by your means of
reaching it. A good print ("good" as in "interesting", or
"engaging") is a good print. In exhibitions, I've never walked up to a print
and said "Wow - looks like Tri-X in Rodinal on Ilfobrome w/Dektol, 68
degrees F for processing" - and I doubt that I ever will.
I *have* walked up to a print and said "Wow! That's an interesting face
- and a nice image of it."
I don't care what camera, lens, film, light, developer, enlarger, lens,
paper, easel, developer, and so on were used to make a print. If the print
is boring, dull, uninteresting, unengaging, etc., the process amounts to
(first choice word deleted for politeness) zilch.
-Bill
On Friday, December 15, 2006, at 03:58 PM, Tim Rudman wrote:
>
> Yes, I know what the image is Dana, and how it gets onto the print is
> critical to how it communicates with the viewer - and therefore how
> 'interesting' it is (to that viewer), or perhaps 'engaging' might be a
> better term for what I mean.
>
> Tim
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