[alt-photo] Re: new MFA program in alt!

[david drake]

I remember reading somewhere (perhaps here on the list?) that big  
prints do not cost that much more to print but you can price them much  
higher. So, its also a monetary thing.
Personally, I had always liked large prints of landscape-type images  
as I thought one could 'enter into the image' more easily. However,  
I'm not so sure that is the case anymore. As the image gets too big,  
the intimacy is lost and they become, like Paul says, 'wallpaper'.

david


On 19-Apr-10, at 1:44 PM, Paul Viapiano wrote:

> The "print big" school confuses quantity with quality...in all  
> things in life, but we know better.
>
> If you're looking for wallpaper, go to Dunn-Edwards is what I'd tell  
> 'em. Geez...
>
> p
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diana Bloomfield" <dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net 
> >
> and he commented that one of the issues he'll be discussing is
>> the pointlessness (my word, not his) of making small prints.  His   
>> comment was that people have to consider how many of those small   
>> prints they'd have to sell in order to make any money, and that  
>> people  really needed to print big . . .
>
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