Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:58 AM 11/23/1999 -0800, Stephen wrote: >not sure, but as early as the late 50's he hired people to print for him, >in his >darkroom. He would then sign the prints he was happy with and send them >out. I >know one of the printers, who has a stash of unfortunately unsigned prints he >did while working for Ansel. I have no idea if he later continued this >practice, or how much printing he did personally. He always distinguished between what he printed himself and what he had others print from him. Who is the printer you are talking about? I suspect the prints were not signed because they didn't meet his standards. All of the fully signed stuff was printed by Ansel himself. The helpers did the grunt work (washing, drying, mounting, spotting, etc.) Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.neteze.com/ewelch Logic: The art of being wrong with confidence...