Acceptance of Ink Jet Prints
I. Wesdorp
museums as a medium for photography. Or do they insist on having 'real'
photographs. I've encountered one gallerie, www.luminuseditions.com, that
sells 'fine art photography' Inkjet prints (be it Iris-prints, but what's
the difference with Epson?). Is this very exceptional?
Thanks,
Igor
Edward Bigelow
computer printing is an explosive new technology which is making quality
imaging available to almost anyone.
Therefore it is sometimes threatening to folks who have a considerable
investment of time and skill in the older technologies, which in many
ways still produce higher quality results.
In some ways it is the relationship photography itself had to painting
150 years ago.
Mike Russell
range of gelatin based chromagenic processes are hiding behind a thin, filmy
veil indeed.
Obsolete Craft Equals High Art
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Painting may exist, but it has not really survived in the sense of providing
livelihoods for a significant number of people. I'd even guess that most
artistic painting materials are for hobbyists, students, and other "non
profit" practitioners, and that art teachers make more money than paint
artists. The market for black velvet nudes and backlit ocean waves is
pretty much saturated. And abstract art even more so.
Photography has begun to dwindle as well, due in large part to stock photo
disks where you may obtain hundreds of images, royalty free, for a fraction
of the cost of what a single image used to cost.
Can Analog Roots Sink into Digital Soil?
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Yes. Not to worry, there will be digital homes for even the most
persnickety resolution and general photo-quality hungry artists among us.
In fact, digital is equally capable of being inconvenient and as hard to use
as any currently used analog process. Viz: an 8x10 deerdorf view camera
with a scanning back is every bit as hard to lug to a good view of the top
of half dome as Ansel Adam's set of a dozen glass plates. Transferring
images to a notebook under adverse conditions is every bit as difficult as
loading your film holder in a changing bag.
You can spend as many hours in PhotoShop with the cloning tool as you used
to spend "SpotToning" your prints, and the furor over the physical
permanence of the digitally printed image has already supplanted long boring
discussions on using fresh fixer, washing of prints, and use of hypo
clearing agent.
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> <eb...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> > I think that digital photography and
> > computer printing is an explosive new technology which is making quality
> > imaging available to almost anyone.
> >
> > Therefore it is sometimes threatening to folks who have a considerable
> > investment of time and skill in the older technologies, which in many
> > ways still produce higher quality results.
> >
> > In some ways it is the relationship photography itself had to painting
> > 150 years ago.
>
> Yet, painting has survived!
>
> Sometimes, the information about an image is worth more than the image
> itself. That's part of the artist's marketing task.
>
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> Those who would hide behind the current superior resolution and dynamic
> range of gelatin based chromagenic processes are hiding behind a thin,
filmy
> veil indeed.
>
> Obsolete Craft Equals High Art
> --------------------------------------
> Painting may exist, but it has not really survived in the sense of
providing
> livelihoods for a significant number of people. I'd even guess that most
> artistic painting materials are for hobbyists, students, and other "non
> profit" practitioners, and that art teachers make more money than paint
> artists.
i know a guy who paints for a living. he says what makes it hard is the
galleries and the taxes. i know another guy that teaches photograpy at the
university. i don't know if he earns more, but it is certainly a more stable
income!
[snip]
> In fact, digital is equally capable of being inconvenient and as hard to
use
> as any currently used analog process. Viz: an 8x10 deerdorf view camera
> with a scanning back is every bit as hard to lug to a good view of the top
> of half dome as Ansel Adam's set of a dozen glass plates. Transferring
> images to a notebook under adverse conditions is every bit as difficult as
> loading your film holder in a changing bag.
i think i might prefer the changing bag over trying to use a notebook
computer in driving snow!!
bob rogers
south carolina
JRS
>Date: 10/26/2000 10:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>i know a guy who paints for a living. he says what makes it hard is the
>galleries and the taxes. i know another guy that teaches photograpy at the
>university. i don't know if he earns more, but it is certainly a more stable
>income!
>
The painters I know who make serious money and have stable income do it by
making and selliing "limited edition" prints of their paintings. One painter I
interviewed a few years ago did several nature paintings a year, then had them
photographed and the photos shipped to a print house (in Japan, it think) where
they turned out anywhere from 500 to 1,500 hundred large top-quality prints.
She then priced these at $125 to $250 per print, and sold them through
galleries, at art shows and through direct mail (this was before everybody and
his dog had a Web page). She claimed that many of the prints sold out. I
couldn't pin down just what her income might be, but she seemed to live very
comfortably.
Which maybe brings us back to the original questions of just what's acceptable
for sale as art and where multiple reproductions, including inkjet prints,
might fit in. The will become acceptable and some people will make money on
them, even though some won't consider them art.
JR