Digital BW, The Print

I just saw a very nice show today at Jackson Fine Art here in Atlanta.
It was a very large show of all the classic great jazz musicians from
the 40's-50's by Herman Leonard. If you are a jazz fanatic like me
this IS the photogarphy of that era. The small prints were silver
black and white but the majority of the show was K3, very slightly to
the warm of neutral 30x40's on Premium Luster. People were arguing
whether they were digital prints or not. I knew what they were the
minute I saw them but they were really done well, and look excellent
under tungsten with no cross over. The people that did these did them
right, and they were drum scans obviously from the original 4x5 Speed
Graphic, flash bulb lit negs. This kind of lighting is a lost art. He
was good. I've seen so many of these before but this was a case where
the negs had the quality to hold up to the new technology and it was a
nice marrage. Really nice. That had the silver print right beside the
Epson prints and no one but us would know the difference behind glass.
I hightly recommend the show if it comes to your town. I'm not sure
who printed them but I belive it was the Bauhaus rip people because
they've done his work before.

http://www.jacksonfineart.com/home.html


http://www.bowhaus.com/news/leonard.php4


John

John,

Thanks for the alert that this show is out there.  I've had a book of  
the Herman Leonard images for a long time, and know how great they  
are as images.  Would love to see excellent prints of them.  That's  
also another good shot in the arm for inkjet printing that the show  
is out there.

For those of you who are also music lovers- if you haven't yet been  
sucked into the world of youtube.com, you might be fascinated by what  
you find.  There are videos on every musician I've thought of, and  
that's a lot.  For example, I had always thought there was only one  
film of Charlie Parker extant.  To my amazement, here on youtube  
there are several, playing with other greats of the day.  There is  
even one where Bird speaks briefly.  Each video brings up related  
videos.  I've had hours go by, watching these things.  Don't even get  
me started on the guitar ones  :  )

James

I emailed the Bauhaus people about these nice jazz prints and Joe 
wrote me with the info I was looking for. The 30x40s were printed in 
Crane Silver Rag with their "TrueBW" printing rip.

http://www.bowhaus.com/news/successstory.php4

For those prints they used an 8 color Roland printer with a custom 
set of MIS K4 & UT-3D inks. Like the Bill Brandt show last year, this 
nice job will put this technology up in ranking of collectors of fine 
monochrome imaging. It certainly is nice to see it happening on such 
a big scale like this, with big prices to boot. Of course the 
unbelievably fine and unparalled body of work and super negs helped 
make it historically significant in more ways than one. This was a 
nice marraige, and I just love that show.

john



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, James Irelan 
<james@...> wrote:
>
> John,
> 
> Thanks for the alert that this show is out there.  I've had a book 
of  
> the Herman Leonard images for a long time, and know how great they  
> are as images.  Would love to see excellent prints of them.  
That's  
> also another good shot in the arm for inkjet printing that the 
show  
> is out there.
> 
> For those of you who are also music lovers- if you haven't yet 
been  
> sucked into the world of youtube.com, you might be fascinated by 
what  
> you find.  There are videos on every musician I've thought of, and  
> that's a lot.  For example, I had always thought there was only 
one  
> film of Charlie Parker extant.  To my amazement, here on youtube  
> there are several, playing with other greats of the day.  There is  
> even one where Bird speaks briefly.  Each video brings up related  
> videos.  I've had hours go by, watching these things.  Don't even 
get  

> me started on the guitar ones  :  )
> 
> James
>