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

[Paul Viapiano]

I'm not against big prints per se, but wish more people could better 
appreciate anything in life with super-sizing it.

p



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


>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
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> 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
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diana Bloomfield" 
>> <dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net
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>> 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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