valerie_matthews@notes.teradyne.com
Date: 09/29/00-10:58:29 AM Z
This is very strange....I'm a lurker. There was a problem with my e-mail
at work. I was wondering what
all the talk about 'Valerie' was about and it was ME all the time!
To introduce myself - I'm primarily a large-format black and white
photographer. I'm in the MFA program
at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. This summer I went to
the two week workshop at
Anderson Ranch in Making Digital Negs for Platinum Prints with Dan
Burkholder and Katherine Turczan.
It was an amazing course - both the instructors and the material. I've
always loved platinum prints.
Being in a very conceptual school (where video and installation are hot
media)
and doing things like large-format photograph and platinum makes
me feel like I should have been born 75 or 100 years ago. Anyone else feel
that way?
If there are any people in the Boston or New England area who have printed
alot of platinum,
I would love chat and perhaps show some prints at some point.
I've really enjoyed the list discussion.
Val
Steve Shapiro <sgshiya@redshift.com> on 09/28/2000 12:20:24 AM
Please respond to alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
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cc: (bcc: Valerie Matthews/Bos/Teradyne)
Subject: Re: list trouble ?? (who is Valerie, where is she?)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 11:04 AM
Subject: list trouble ?? (who is Valerie, where is she?)
>
> I received this message from a list friend, and pass it along in case
> there's an answer out there. I myself have been getting 4 or 5 list
> e-mails a day (less than satisfactory comments about what makes
> photography art, but that's not this problem).
>
> Judy
>
> ===========================================
>
> ... is the alt-photo list gone?
>
> I had not seen any traffic for quite a while, sent a test message to the
> list, and it was returned to me saying that 'there is no Valerie Matthews
at
> Teradyne.'
>
> ============================
>
> Any ideas?
>
The Renaissance art masters gathered together in the Garden of Scholars and
determied that 'fine' art was that which was to determind the finite
expression, medium to caputre and relate a particular reality that would
satisfy the basic=finite dimensions in reality.
The questions raised as to what was reality and what was finite was
detemined over the rseuming several centuries to justify three dimensional
'fine art' was expressed in the manner of a medium called sculpture; the
materials have changed by sculpture remains the fine art of three
dimensional expression. The painting, it was determined, was the most
basic
of finite expressions of the two dimensional expression and although depth
of expression and luminessence were at point, here; the basic two
dimensional expression was always painting with variations of medium being
print, drawing et. al.
It was not until the end of the 20th century that strides to relate
photography to a third dimension, that of fixing light, did this discussion
come to form a basic=finite expression of a sensual dimension and that was
determined to be one reason that photography is recognized as a fine art.
Reference: Boris Blai, Barnagut Foundation.
Steve Shapiro
one more opinion
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