RE: Wet vs. Dry

I think Loris & Chris have both hit it on the head.
The battle has only been "won" for 20 years or so about whether photography
is even a collectable "Art".
Wet photography printing can produce an edition of 25 or 50 heck even a
hundred or 2 but they are not identical and are still "hand made" where a
200 print edition from a digital print are looked at as just a print run.
There is no way to assure the artist even was present other than hopefully
signing them. I know it's not right but I think that's the problem.

And I too own & operate an Epson 2200, Canon 20D (with pinhole) and a whole
set of wet cameras so I'm not putting down either method just that's what
I've been getting as feedback.
(hmm... maybe if we could mount a pinhole directly on a printer...)
regards
       Andy Schmitt

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chris@ellingerphoto.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 8:55 AM
To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Wet vs. Dry

> I have been pondering getting a high end archival inkjet Epson
> printer, and was wondering what you all think about inkjet vs. wet
> (silver) prints.

Disclaimer: I'm not a gallery owner, so it really doesn't matter what I
think about this.

However....

Having made both, I think of silver prints as "hand made" and inkjet prints
as "mass
produced". I know there are elements of mass production in silver
materials, and
personal attention in the production of inkjet prints, but that's how I
feel.

As a photographer, the difference between darkroom work and computer-aided
imaging is the experience. To me, darkroom work feels like "craft" and
computer-aided
imaging feels like "engineering". Since engineering is my day job, I prefer
the
darkroom for my photography.

I'm pretty sure none of this means anything to the buying public.

YMMV.

Chris Ellinger
Ann Arbor, MI
USA
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