From: Phillip Murphy (pmurf@bellsouth.net)
Date: 09/27/03-06:28:24 PM Z
Translations into book plates from the original can be exquisite, absolutely.
The thing that troubles me for some reason about the Chuck Close dags is
that they are actually Jerry Spagnolli's Daguerreotypes. I've not seen him
credited for this work. Perhaps he has, I've just never seen it.
I've noticed that when I look at pictures of Daguerreotypes in books
after having looked at actual Dags for an hour or so, the pictures in
the book takes on a deeper dimension than if I've just taken the book
from a shelf at random and started viewing them. Has anyone else
noticed this phenomena after viewing prints from various media?
-Phillip
Judy Seigel wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Phillip Murphy wrote:
>
> >
> > The added shame of poor gallery exhibition of Daguerreotypes is that the
> > medium poorly translates into book pages
>
> But it can be translated exquisitely into book pages given the proper
> expertise (or maybe it's liberty?). I think of the Chuck Close dags in
> Lyle Rexer's Antiquarian book... I found them more remarkable than the
> originals which I saw well lighted (as far as I, a non-expert, could tell)
> in the gallery show.
>
> J.
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