From: roger.kockaerts (roger.kockaerts@chello.be)
Date: 04/05/01-07:13:07 AM Z
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>De : Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>
>À : alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
>Objet : warning: bad word...RE: to mat or not
>Date : Jeu 5 avr 2001 10:04
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>On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Dave Rose wrote:
>CUT
>
>> looking at. They really don't care if it's a gum print, platinum,
>> Cibachrome, conventional B&W silver print, or (heaven forbid!) a photocopy.
>> So why bother proving to the uneducated masses that your prints are
>> 'handmade' by shoving the evidence (torn paper edges, scribbled notes and
>> brush strokes) in their face? Will they understand or appreciate what
>> they're looking at? Not likely. (Yes, I understand the comeback to that
>> question.... "we need to educate the masses"!!!). Better to wow them with
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>
>Dave, screw the "uneducated masses." I'm not trying to wow them -- or
>anyone like them. Just myself.
>
>> the image itself.... isn't that what really mattered anyway when you tripped
>> the shutter?
>
>actually not... my best pictures are always made by the camera, behind my
>back.
>
>Judy
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