Re: Truth Beauty book
Chris wrote > What I cannot understand, though (forgive my opinion here), is that > generation's fascination with the Michallet paper that had strong vertical > lines. Chris, when I look at the Demachy prints I see someone trying to make photos look like chalk drawings. He chooses the red chalk color and uses the tiniest brushes lifting out highlights to emulate academic drawing standards of the 19th century. One of the prints in the St. Louis show a couple of years ago of fishermen pushing their boat up onto the beach had remarkable details in the hands. Knuckles that we would understand without further delineation in a photo he had carefully highlighted no matter how dense the shadow it hovered in. I love the prints but think it is a very interesting look into the era that he felt compelled to such extremes. In that context his use of common drawing paper texture seems a natural. Jack
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