[Leica] Magnum & the Dying Art of Darkroom Printing

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Its just that I've over 4 decades printed and half my friends did the same.
As in printed the same neg on different papers different times. Different
sizes for different shows or clients. RC and or Fiber. C print or
Cibachrome.  And had our assistants do It and or a custom printer do it.
Its scintillating horsepucky.

-- 
Mark R.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/


> From: Tarek Charara <tcharara at mac.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:12:33 +0100
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Magnum & the Dying Art of Darkroom Printing
> 
> You'd have to make those note at some final stage so that you don't start 
> the
> whole trial and error process all over again. years later when you need to
> print again.
> 
> All the best from Paris!
> 
> Tarek
> 
> -------------------------------------------------
> Tarek Charara
> <http://www.tarekcharara.com>
> 
> NO ARCHIVE
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Le 8 mars 2012 ? 06:06, Mark Rabiner a ?crit :
> 
>> I cant figure out if this is an example of a kind of obsesive compulsive
>> psychosis or an attempt at humor. There is also a famous one of a head 
>> from
>> Avedon. An image marked up way past any reason or comprehension.
>> I'll tell you what I think it is its drugs in the 80's.
>> But it might be Public relations. Your clients are supposed to think that
>> even though you  yourself are not making the prints the relation between 
>> you
>> and your assistant or printer is so involved that its worth all the
>> ridiculous money they are paying you for the job and or print.
>> 
>> In reality when you go through sheets and sheets of paper in the darkroom
>> its a rather organic process of trial and error. And you cant be reminded 
>> of
>> it from a mark up or controlled by someone giving you a marked up thing 
>> like
>> that. The printer has to sweat it out themselves. Adams called it a
>> performance of a score. But your head is not buried in the score. You have
>> to look up from time to time and cue your orchestra.
>> -- 
>> Mark R.
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/
> 
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