If you're honest, I suspect you'd admit that the image shown here more than likely wouldn't make you stop for a long glance, let alone a second glance... based strictly on what you can see from this small thumbnail on a busy web page. Nevertheless, when I saw an original print of it in a … Continue reading Inspiring Prints: “The Black Canyon” by Edward Steichen
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The term "fine print" (or "expressive print" as I think of it) is elusive in meaning. The fine print represents, to me, an expressive object of beauty and excellence. The difference between a very good print and a fine print is quite subtle and difficult, if not impossible, to describe in words. There is a … Continue reading Ansel Adams on the Expressive Print
Regarding rumors that the digital age is soon to render photographic prints as being no longer necessary or relevant (due to increasing numbers of photographic images being viewed on electronic monitors) speculators overlook the tremendous importance and historic relevance of the physical artifact as being a uniquely necessary and applicable aspect of photographic art. The … Continue reading Print is alive and well
