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

[Romeo]

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On Feb 13, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Diana Bloomfield <dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net 
 > wrote:

> I juried a show several years ago, where this person had some  
> gorgeous prints (digital), but she'd labeled them "carbon prints."   
> I knew they were digital, and that didn't keep me from awarding her  
> 1st place, because both the image itself and the printing were  
> really wonderful--  but I told her later that she needed to clarify  
> the labels on how she defined those images, and she actually had no  
> idea that there was this ancient process out there, called carbon,  
> that some people still do.  So she still makes these prints, but she  
> now labels them to reflect more clearly how they were printed.
>
> My suspicion, though, is that the majority do want to identify their  
> work-- as you say-- with what they view as "more prestigious  
> techniques."   I would have thought digital, at this point, was  
> widely accepted now-- you see it in galleries everywhere-- so that  
> people didn't feel the need to have to do that.  I rarely even see  
> people use the term 'giclee' anymore.  I'm really surprised, because  
> I do think that to be so adept at using Photoshop, and really take  
> full advantage of its capabilities-- is probably no small feat.
>
> On Feb 13, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Tomas Sobota wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
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