[alt-photo] Re: "Alternative" printing?

[Tomas Sobota]

It seems to me that digital printers still have to find a term with which
they feel at ease. They evidently don't feel that "digital printing" sounds
artistic enough, hence their attempts to identify their work with other
techniques with more prestige. I remember a few years back when digital
printers called their work "carbon prints", to the chagrin of real carbon
workers. The idea was that black inkjet pigment-based inks have carbon as a
component. This might be true, but still, come on!
So now they call themselves "alt"? I didn't know that, but it's the same
reality twisting as before. Perhaps they should take a cue from early XXth
century photographers and start making artistic-looking digital prints. They
could call this "digipictorialism" ...

Tom Sobota
Madrid, Spain

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Loris Medici <mail at loris.medici.name>wrote:

> Alternative is (at least, or, if you like; in general sense) something
> different from mainstream in my view. (Pretty original interpretation,
> isn't it? Hehehehe...) Therefore, "typical digital printing" (inkjet,
> lambda, lightjet and such - if I missed anything else) wouldn't
> qualify as alternative to me - I mean if that's what those photogs
> really do. (BTW, according to that definition, silver gelatin is
> slowly transforming into an alternative process. Not quite there yet,
> but pretty close...)
>
> Regards,
> Loris.
>
>
> 2010/2/13 Diana Bloomfield <dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net>:
> > ...
> >  I've noticed --especially lately-- that I seem to either hear about or
> see photographers'
> > work (and websites), where the photographers refer to  themselves as
> > "alternative process" printers.  I always take a second look, because I'm
> > interested in what they're doing.  Then when I take a closer look, I see
> > that nine times out of ten, all their printing is actually digital.
> > ...
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