From: R Kirk Williams (vertigoboy@yahoo.com)
Date: 03/08/02-01:44:16 PM Z
Why are you putting the wet process above the digital
process. I have found them to be equally
easy/difficult. There are seperate testing and
calibration methods for each process if you choose to
approach it from that perspective. The different
processes will continually lend themselves to certain
ways of working. And the process is not always the
issue. The question so many people don't ask when
working in different processes is, "Is this
image/project suited to the process and does the
process carry it forward to another level." As far as
the time necessary in making a platinum print...do you
want paid for your time or for the image and ideas and
life they represent?
Kirk
>
>
> Seems like a good time to ask: what position will
> the handmade print hold
> as photographic output is expressed increasingly as
> digital prints?
>
> Will those of us who wet-print become more like
> painters who make one (or
> several) "originals" and then rely on machine
> produced prints to sell at
> a competitive price?
>
> Though I'll be the first to admit--and in all
> modesty I do feel I know of
> what I speak--that it takes a entirely different and
> demanding set of
> skills to produce excellent digital output
> (digitally applied archival
> pigment prints on fine cotton paper), it is simply
> MORE difficult and
> time consuming to make a wonderful platinum or other
> hand-coated print.
>
> Some dealers think there will be separate markets
> for handmade prints vs.
> digitally output prints. I have no idea how that
> concept shakes down in
> terms of respect, demand or dollars.
>
> What do those on the list think?
>
> Dan
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