Digital BW, The Print

From:  Paul Roark

"Anyone who has gazed at Ansel Adam's original print of 'Moonrise,
Hernandez' is looking
at Oriental New Seagull paper, distributed by International Supplies."

I used Oriental for a while. It was truly wonderful paper, but then they
changed it and it was no longer the same.

Interesting hyperbole on the part of orientalphotousa.com, since the vast
majority of Moonrise prints were made before Oriental paper even existed.
Everybody wants/wanted to jump on the Ansel bandwagon. He did in fact use
Oriental for a while, I believe.

One of the more interesting things about Moonrise is how he changed the
printing over the years. Early versions are barely recognizable. Definitely
an argument against the silly "vintage print" notion.

David Kachel

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