From: Jeff Buckels (jeffbuck@swcp.com)
Date: 03/08/02-04:32:06 PM Z
I know of a market for completely hand-made pt/pd (etc.) prints: Myself.
-jb
FDanB@aol.com wrote:
> 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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