Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I do like the analogy. Handcrafted is the key. Jay Ignaszewski -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bonvini=optonline.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bonvini=optonline.net@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of Scott McLoughlin Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 6:37 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:digital transformation Me'thinks you're right. How much does it cost to have a nice sculpture made of oneself, or a fine oil painting? AFAIK, craft costs. Scott Adam Bridge wrote: >Nobody ask me but I think that in a few decades there will be a very >high-end market for entirely analog (wet-darkroom) photographic works >and it will be because there will be few practitioners of the art, >materials will be hard to come by, so the work will be seen as clearly >the work of an individual, an artisan and will represent some hours of >that person's work which went into making a particular print so that >even if many are made there will be differences between them (an >essential part of what will lend the print its value.) > >So train those kids so they find joy in the darkroom. With talent and >luck they could step into a very lucrative world. > >Of course I could be TOTALLY wrong. But look at the price of hand-made >high quality furniture these days. It's not just the wood that gives >it value. > >Adam > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information