Digital BW, The Print

He is of a generation that grew up and perfected something very fine and beautiful. But 
history moves on and that thing belongs to the 19th century. You can't always teach an old 
dog new tricks, and sometime he likes the tricks he already has learned so well and is not 
about to start over when there is no reason to do so.





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, hogarth@s... wrote:
> I hate to say this because I've got the utmost repect for John Sexton. 
> He is the consumate darkroom printer. There are few in his league when 
> it comes to a fine silver gelatin print.
> 
> But... follow the money. Sexton's entire career is based on silver 
> gelatin. The workshops he teaches are about silver gelatin printing. I 
> don't recall seeing him offer a workshop on any other topic (he might 
> well have, but if so I haven't seen it). He has, for lack of a better 
> way to put it, a vested interest in maintaining the idea that the best 
> B&W prints come from the process he makes his living with.
> 
> I don't blame him for using his influence to support his ideals. But you 
> have to recongnise that his is not an unbiased opinion.
> --
> Bruce Watson
> 
> 
> Pacific New Media wrote:
> 
> > John Sexton wrote recently in his newsletter:
> >
> > "To date I have never seen a black and white print from the digital domain
> > that rivals the sensuous and tactile qualities of a well-crafted black and
> > white silver print."
> >
> > There were many this kind of comments two or three years ago but not a lot
> > lately, especially from a heavy weight b&w printer. Anyone coming from 
> > both
> > domains (analog and digital) care to share some experiences and 
> > observations
> > on this?
> >
> > After so many years of hard work of many talented people, and 
> > companies like
> > Epson and HP, is today's best digital print still lack of those "sensuous
> > and tactile qualities of a well-crafted black and white silver print"?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > - philip
> >
> >