Steve Shapiro (sgshiya@redshift.com)
Sat, 06 Mar 1999 12:07:38 -0800
Maybe there's a 'mood' out there in the alternative to silver gelatin
photography world I don't know about; and I'd like to know why somebody
would want to take all that time and trouble to make a cynotype, when a
silver gelatin print is so much ... well ... peckerly.
I may be wrong, because I haven't seen the movie.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Steinmetz <csteinmetz@redneck.efga.org>
To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
<alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: john waters movie "Pecker"
>> Perhaps some folks involved with alt photography like to talk a bit about
>> inspiration as well as perspiration? Is this only a nuts-and-bolts list?
>
>But "inspiration" is much more general than alt (more general than photo,
>even), and there are many more appropriate places to discuss it than here
>-- the various photo theory outlets, in particular. To return to a theme I
>sounded recently: the strength of this list is its focus. If we lose that,
>it's just another list for people interested in images/imaging in general,
>and we will lose the expertise of those who really know their alt but have
>no patience for wading through non-alt (or tangentially alt) topics.
>
>Whether inspiration "is" or "isn't" alt is not the issue, in my mind.
>The fact is that many users of and valuable contributors to this list
>consider tangential topics out of place, and will respond to efforts to
>assert a broader definition of what is alt-appropriate by leaving the
>list. We are much better off exercising restraint and respecting the
>focus of the list than fighting for turf and destroying it, particularly
>when there are other outlets that cater precisely to the topic.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Charles
>
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