RE: Wet vs. Dry

Tom,

I'm not a gallery owner, but here is my quick take. Gallery owners are
doing themselves a disservice by continuing to look down upon archival
inkjet prints. The quality of inkjet prints these days, when printed by a
true artist, is outstanding. Coupled with the longevity of inkjet prints,
they are a much better deal for the customers. I think the time should be
now; but it is inevitable that galleries will start to see the value of
inkjet.

Sources of my thinking are Mary Virginia Swanson, who made this point in a
workshop I attended a couple of years ago, as well as David Vestal, who has
written on the subject. Pinhole photographer Jeff Korte's current pinhole
exhibit at the IceBox Gallery (and in B&W magazine) are done with digital
pigment printing. There are a lot of things that can be done better with
digital, especially long prints. Locally, Daniel Beers has been creating
loonnng digital prints of runon images that take up one or more rolls of
film. His work is well received.

A disclaimer: I'm not knocking wet work, it is what I do when printing B&W.

I have noticed that in general, the prices of fine art photography, at least
in my area (Twin Cities), have dropped precipitously over the last three or
four years. Several of the best traditional art photographers have had big
drops in sales and income. Some of them are moving into digital output and
enjoying it.

Tom M
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Received on Mon Nov 28 14:44:50 2005