Re: Why Process? (was: wet plate)
mentzer@bedford.progress.com (drn2431.bhc1@pcmail.dcccd.edu)
Tue, 3 May 94 4:39:00 CST
Clearly, every process has its inherent, distinguishing syntax,
perduring as a trace in the works produced by that process, and
as such providing an impetus to utilize one process rather than
another. The artist cannot but add to 1. the object photographed
and 2. the meaterial process by which the photograph is factured;
both mediate the image.
If by some means, digital or whatever, an exact duplicate is made
of an antecedent work, does a difference obtain between the
antecedent and duplicate, on the one hand, and two apparently
identical gelatin silver (or whatever) prints from the same
negative, on the other hand? In the first instance, a difference
of type obtains; in the second, the several prints are each
tokens of a type.
David Newman. Brookhaven College. drn2431.bhc1@pcmail.dcccd.edu