Digital BW, The Print

At 10:12 PM +0000 12/30/06, yoelisd2003 wrote:

>When you print limited edition photos, you destroy the original file?


Yep.


Just like Ansel killed the neg. of that church-moonrise thingie.*


NOT.


Anyone who destroys original source is an idiot.


If history proves the original source useless then there was simply a 
waste of space by saving it.

If the photograph becomes esthetically, or historically, important 
then saving it's earliest and most complete reproduction is an 
essential act.


99.99% of us won't raise an eyebrow when our work is seen x years in 
the future.

That doesn't mean that the remaining 0.01% shouldn't preserve their 
original negatives/files for future technological advances.

Reproduction technology is progressing at an almost asymptotic pace. 
I think that within ten years we will be able to make prints that 
make today's look as comparatively primitive as those made from '80s 
dot-matrixes.


-=-Dennis



*(Though I heard he hated it by the time he died. He'd printed it so 
often -- and printing it was a bear -- that he felt like he was on a 
printing production-line with it and all the other photos people 
wanted...)




















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