I just went to the Frank Gehry exhibit at the Guggenheim today, and was hoping t o see, along with the models and projects some really great architectural photog raphy (which is largely a LF domain, so I think it is relevant here), given the venue, the status of the architect, and the sense that the show is somewhat of a sales pitch on the part of the museum for the new branch of the Guggenheim they want to build downtown off the South Street Seaport.
I'm sure that many of the photographs were originally quite good, but they were all digitized, the scans were often fuzzy (really--nothing in focus, and that in cludes some quite small prints), and most seemed to be printed as low-contrast, grainy inkjets. They would have been better off, most likely, just cutting the photographs out of the catalogue and pasting them up. If I were a photographer with a credit in the show, I would be irritated. The exhibit is very much worth seeing, but what a tremendous waste of a lot of expensive LF images.
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