[Leica] The Great Comeback

[gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)]

Mark,

Great to see you're back (and able to be) posting to the Lug!

Regards,

Greg

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
Date: Saturday, February 11, 2006 9:59 pm
Subject: Re: [Leica] The Great Comeback

> On 2/11/06 2:01 PM, "Philippe Orlent" <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> 
> typed:
> >> http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5466822
> >> 
> >> --Bill
> 
> It's just never been that the latest printing or photographic 
> processes like
> when the Carbon print was invented. When the cyanotype process 
> came out in
> 1842 plenty of people stuck with their Calotypes - Daguerreotypes all
> existed simultaneously. The wet collodion Albumen prints started 
> happeningbut couldn't be said of have completely taken over.
> The latest photographic process becomes another option. Just one more
> option,
> Often they'll dominate the scene; not always.
> Fresson prints for instance.
> The best prints you could get for a great while.
> But didn't get people forgetting the darkroom color print making 
> processesof the time, Or dye transfers which were not such a secret.
> 
> 
> Now we've got digital capturing, digital scanning and digital 
> printing as a
> new option. And most of a just digital viewing. Some will say that 
> to do any
> other option is foolish. They're all excited about their little 
> inkjets and
> their website online gallery and nothing else is permitted to exist,
> Many are going to  stick with their silver Jello prints or 
> platinum prints
> made outside at high noon without a cloud in the sky. Like 
> yesterday here in
> Portland. Great day for platinum. Lousy for silver. In-between for
> Inkjetting you could do it by a picture window and even have it 
> opened.Me I'm excited about digital it's exciting to see such an 
> involving possess
> which makes one feel photography is being re invented because 
> there are more
> ramifications. 
> Like we're in the age of Daguerre and Talbot, Ni?pce
> And WC Handy! 
>    having to go to the "Chemist" who was the Pharmacist. (the 
> drug store
> guy) to get our chemicals and other darkroom needs. Those few, 
> those nerdy
> few.
> Now the most dramatic thing about the whole photographic 
> phenomenon is
> printing to monitor. Printing to pixel not to paper.
> For the internet, your website or your emails. Your little hand 
> held viewer.
> The back of your camera. Next year your wrist watch,
> Its like photography is no longer Morse code tapping away but its 
> now freely
> communicating to everybody. Not just the tappers.
> Its television.
> 
> - a Bendel bonnet, 
> A Shakespeare's sonnet,
> - Mickey Mouse!
> 
> With their Blogs calling them Photo Blogs or not people are 
> communicatingvisually sucking their daily captures from their 
> digital point and shoots
> right into their online public diary. People are thinking 
> visually. Twenty
> years ago it just just not the same.
> There were typewriters. There were Darkrooms.
> And those doing the "alternate" processes.
> The processes which have been invented along the way and not 
> forgotten.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> Soon to be residing in the Greater New York Metropolitan area.
> ON an never ending battle for TRUTH! JUSTICE! ...
> 
> 
> 
> 
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