[Leica] Semetko Opening Last night

[csemetko at gmail.com (Craig Semetko)]

Thanks for coming Chris! And thanks to all the other Luggers who came and 
said hi--it was great to see you all. Hope you guys got to meet some of the 
people that were there---Ralph Gibson, mary Ellen mark, Elliott erwitt, and 
the singer songwriter john Mayer! Turns out he's a Leica freak! Who knew? 
Pretty cool night.

Yes, viewing prints is the way to go. Richard Photo Lab in LA does mine and 
I think they do a terrific job with the silver gelatins. I only had two 
pigment prints in the show, done by different people, and one is 
indistinguishable from a gelatin print and the other probably would be too 
if it wasn't lighter in tone than the others next to it.

It was all very exciting and the show is up until Feb 26th, so if you're in 
NYC before then please come and take a look.

Cheers,

Craig

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> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:09:07 -0500
> From: Chris Saganich <csaganich at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Leica] Semetko Opening Last Night
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> Great show Craig!  It was great to see big gallery prints of your images.
> Matted prints trump all other means of display IMHO.
> It was great to see so many luggers out on a chilly night.
> It was nice to see a mix of film and digital prints and the 
> state-of-the-art
> of b&w digital processing and printing.  Such a difference compared to 
> first
> time I attempted to make a digital inkjet B&W print in 1996; the resulting
> horror sent me back into the darkroom where I vowed not to emerge until
> technology became significantly advanced...and here we are.  Very exciting.