Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Coincidently Ansel Adams who was trained in classical music made an example of Beethoven's 9th saying that a print is a performance of music a photographer makes just like a conductor conducts a performance from a score of music. Each time you conduct it its a different piece or print. The score would be the neg. That's how I certainly think of it over the decades as I've known about this that long. And some day I hope to conduct some music from a score. Actually maybe I've done that already on a smaller scale. Mark William Rabiner > From: Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:02:26 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG Print Exchange January!! > > On Dec 23, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> I do think making a print and having a book made might have some vague >> overlap but are two completely different topics. >> When I like most people over the decades practicing photography want >> to see >> my latest picture I make a print of it. >> >> People now can make make a digital file and never have to make a >> print. >> They upload it to a gallery or to a service which makes a print or a >> book. >> Or any number of other things. >> To me in a strong way it's a jpeg by any other name. >> >> Getting a nicely designed packet with a stack of prints in it all >> made in >> different methods on different paper by different Rollei people, and >> guess >> what with Rollei cameras coincidently enough, was a nice experience. >> >> It did not feel like getting a book in the mail. >> Not even vaguely. >> I don't think these two things overlap or otherwise threaten each >> other. >> >> Books are nice but my "book" over the past 15 years has not been a >> book. >> But a stack of fiber not RC prints in a box. >> Before that I had a "book" of my best work. >> People would flip through it. >> I'd make sure the prints were in the right order and the pages were >> fresh. >> No one tried to order one. > > > thanks Mark... I have great appreciation and understanding for the > print as a means of expression... > > and I love them, used to work in a darkroom... > > I know you are very dedicated to that timeless part of photography, > > but I always put the photograph first, regardless of how it is > presented. > > Much rather see hundreds of LUG's best images in a book, as I will > never see them in a print, as I want to see them. > > I think a bit too much is made of the print, putting the method above > the message... > > I would rather hear a performance of Beethoven's Ninth, whether or not > I see the original score. > > However I think we might consider how to makes prints available, of > selected images, from the book... > > yours, mine, and others... > > > Steve > > > > >> >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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