RE: Silver prints from digital files?

Nick,

I've seen a couple of exhibits here in DC that were digital B&W prints, and
they were impressive, although these were not the "typical" kind of fine
art/landscape/portrait silver prints that one is used to seeing in
galleries.

I saw Donald Sultan's "Smoke Rings" series and I was blown away: these were
huge images digitally printed into (4) 32"x32" square prints which were
mounted without fames and borders, and arranged into huge 64" square images.
These were very subtle prints of mostly dark bronze background and sinewy
lit smoke (from a cigar?) in various amorphous shapes and compositions.

It sounds strange but these 64" squares have sold a lot -- I know that
several were sold in DC at about $10,000 per image. There was no technical
information describing how these prints were done, other than "digital
print." If you have a chance to see these check them out.

For a sample of what I'm talking about see:

http://www.newzones.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=64

R.J.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Dvoracek [mailto:dvoracek@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 10:08 AM
To: pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com
Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Silver prints from digital files?

Does anyone know if a vendor exists who outputs digital files to real
silver prints. Fiber would be great but I could live with RC. My
local camera store didn't know of any. I can't imagine there's a lot
of market, but you never know what someone might specialize in.

I know there's been a lot of discussion of inkjet and other computer
output. We have a Xerox/Tektronix Phaser 7700 color laser printer
that puts out really good black and white print quality and can do it
on a wide variety of papers. Are people exhibiting these inkjet and
laser print images? Do juried shows accept them?

Nick

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