WOW! I got more then I bargained for! THANK YOU for the great comments. Though one reminded me to work on my slider and maybe get a cat to unwind my ball of twine.
Stephen, your comment brought to mind a situation, maybe 20 years ago, when someone at a local college showed me an AA 8x10 contact print, that was signed by Adams. However, I asked whether it was actually printed by him and the answer was no. It was printed by an assistant, with his guidence, under that program he started to make more affordable prints. It was around the time of his retropsetive at MOMA and book, Yosemite and the Range of Light.
The difference was obvious of Adam's prints, deeper richer blacks, more contrast when compared to the assistants prints. Whether the difference was intentional or different materials I do not know. Even the MOMO show had hung the same photograph from the same negative but printed at different times. His new book, celebrating 100 years compares prints done close to when the negative was made vs decades later. The differences are dramatic.
The format in which an image is made is immaterial to the message, thought, feeling, emotion that the photographer is trying to convey. Actually, if an image makes you think more of how it was made, then maybe the photographer did not accomplish what he set out to do.
Again, thanks for the comments!
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