[LargeFormat] The Big Digit
menso guk
largeformat@f32.net
Sat Feb 23 22:07:00 2002
I am attempting to install a regular scanner as a film back on my 8X10.
I am sure this will be an interesting JOURNEY>>>>>>>>>>>>
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menso guk
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---- "Marco Milazzo" <mmilazz1@elp.rr.com> wrote:
> Uncle Dick,
>
> About 1870, prepared oil paints began to be available to artists,
> freeing
> them from the need to make their own paints.
> Did the quality of oil paintings suddenly improve? Nope. Painting
> became more convenient, but as today, painters continued to be divided
> into
> the few "good" and the many . . . well, "not as good."
>
> Art resides in the eyes, hearts and minds of artists, not in their
> tools or
> their processes. Wasn't in someone on this list who said that Jerry
> Ulesman's "handmade" montages have never been surpassed, even though
> these
> days, any kid with Photoshop can produce them?
>
> I expect that eventually, digits will replace most film and chemicals
> processes, but technology will not of itself, replace the art and images
> of
> the thinking, feeling photographer.
>
> When I look at a beautiful picture by Julia Margaret Cameron or Eugene
> Atget, I never think "What an antique!" And I never wonder what kind
> of
> camera they used, except as an afterthought -- after I've thought,
> "How
> beautiful!" or "How touching.!"
>
> Knickerless Nickleby
>
> (Marco of El Paso del Norte, Tejas)
>
>
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