RE: Archiving...
I have to agree with those that plan to stay with their Kodachrome slides
and lightboxes, viewers etc. The electronic age has brought many
conveniences and certain advantages, but it's disposable nature serves
commerce much more than the average individual. Both from a market creation
and sales standpoint, and from the cost effectiveness of turning over newer
hard and software by companies that use the products themselves in the
course of their.
I hear that when the new "high resolution" TVs hit the stores - at some
point - your old set will be unuseable due to a change in the transmission
type. Everyone has to buy.. a new tv. Digital information recording, storage
and retrieval products have and are going to change continually. And I'll
continue to only buy them when they are dirt cheap, if I can help it.
And ..... RE: Ansel Adams
I don't have a problem with an "artist" producing a picture - or image - any
way he or she pleases in order to produce a "work of art". But in the
general sense to me; a portrait is a portrait, a landscape a landscape etc.
I am more impressed with superb non-manipulated images than the manipulated.
Playing with contrast, depth of field, using a filter or two etc to increase
or enhance the impact of a photograph does begin to venture outside of
"realism" when it is not merely to compensate purely scientific shortcomings
of glass, camera and film over light, colors, etc.
To me, in a sense, there is a distinct difference between an artist and a
photographer. I have been both - but I am usually (um .. usually!) quite
clear when I take a photograph as to what the intention is; a photographic
record - or a work of art. Of course there is the "art" of technique, much
like the "art of fencing" or "the art of rifle shooting". In that sense all
photgraphy is an "art".
I had thought Adam's more "visual records" than anything else and to find
out they were somewhat manipulated certainly changes things a tad. I have
seen some tremendous works by various photographers taken in the mid to late
1800s - many landscapes included. I do not know of any of them playing with
developing and printing techniques to alter "creatively" as opposed to
recording accurately was was seen at the time - and they generally feature
as historical records in historical museums, published works etc as opposed
to being catalogued and displayed as "art".
Interesting revelation; now I have to go back and look at them all again -
much closer!
LEE
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