But let me get back on topic. Isn't this debate splitting hairs a bit?
Why do we need to have such a clear cut divide between straight and
alternative? For example, how would the group place the Starn twins?
They use silver materials; does that mean they aren't alternative process
practioners? Or how about someone who just uses a commercial product
like Liquid Light: are they using an alternative process, or are they
excluded because they are using an alternative-in-a-bottle approach? How
about a photographer like Willie Anne Wright; is she not alternative
because she uses cibachrome? Basically, my question is this:
are alternative processes are merely a formula or a recipe or are they
an alternate way of approaching photographic materials and equipment?
I respect the intensity of purpose and focus which many list members
bring to their work. But I ask why we cannot discuss all
alternatives.
richard u wheeler
rwheeler@everest.hunter.cuny.edu
rwheeler@guggenheim.org
http://everest.hunter.cuny.edu/~rwheeler