From: TERRY KING, 101522,2625
TO: Risa S. Horowitz, INTERNET:babbleon@terraport.net
DATE: 07/06/96 23:28
RE: Copy of: Re: physiology vs. sensitometry
Risa
Risa
It is often the case, but not always, that the picture on the wall will be a
disappointment after seeing reproductions in books. Sometimes the preparation of
the blocks enhances the image. At other times all the tactility and mystery of a
print can be lost in reproduction. Sometimes one had imagined a large image to
find that the original is only a half plate. Sometimes one has seen a better
print in a private collection. Sometimes the reproductions of my own work are so
bad that I almost want to cry. Sometimes the original prints are so
disappointing that one feels that one's heros have feet of clay. And sometimes
the prints on the gallery wall have such power that everything around one
disappears so that all one can contemplate is the print. Life ain't consistent.
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh and educated in Edinburgh and
London, he went to Canada but then worked in Boston Mass on the phonetic systems
that led to the invention of the telephone.
Let us like him, and the net, make the world smaller.
Terry King