Hi Doug,
Not so much disturbing as amusing. There are valid artistic reasons to
explore any process, no matter how messy and obnoxious. I used to do stone
lithography, so I know what retro methodology can do for your working
creative process. That doesn't make stone lithography intrinsically better
than direct-to-plate digital offset printing, however. And real Tri X grain
isn't intrinsically better than grain that is created in Photoshop. If a
process leads you to exciting creative adventures, by all means be retro or
hypertechnological... whatever works for you.
All to often, though, these arguments end up as philosophical tempests in a
teapot about what medium is more honest, human, or "real". I spent too many
days and nights smelling acetic acid in a poster-portrait studio to have any
inclination to try better living through chemistry... but that's just me.
Okay, disco IS disturbing...
Best,
BJ
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[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Doug Cooper
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 11:19 PM
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Subject: [OM] Re: olympus-digest V2 #1297
>Considering the folks who bemoan CD's as unlistenable and who hold
>precious the "warmth" of their vinyl recordings, there are bound to be
>plenty of misguided zealots who wax romantic about the "pointillism" of
>silver grains. Wet plate photography may not be the hip retro movement,
>but then again, I was SURE disco was dead.
>Best,
>BJ
Hate to break it to you, BJ, but wet plate photography *is* the hip retro
movement. I just finished an article discussing this very trend: seems
the avant garde are embracing 19th century photographic techniques. (And
Sally Mann's hunting down old view camera lenses with fungus and
separation.)
This may disturb you, but it makes me happy. I've recently rediscovered
the pointillism of Tri-X, and I like it a lot. (Can't stand T-Max.) And
I collect vinyl, for what it's worth.
Film won't go away so quickly, I suspect.
Doug Cooper
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