Inkjet better than wet prints yet?

[IanG]

I think nothing looks better than a wet print -- then the dang things dry.

Come on now Vaughan, except when it dries to be one of Thomas Joshua Coopers prints 3 million shades of dark grey and black

Ian

[Kirk Gittings]

I love Cooper's prints-he was graduate student when I was an undergraduate at UNM. i used to go to his critiques. VD Coke used to jack him up "photography doesn't need a third generation of b&w landscape photographers". Cooper just kept his mouth shut and did his thing.

[Greg Lockrey]

I think nothing looks better than a wet print -- then the dang things dry.

Yep... but what doesn't look too far off is a gloss laminated ink-jet. It has that "sparkle" too....

[Old-N-Feeble]

MY dad's inkjet can out-gloss your dad's inkjet.

[Jay DeFehr]

I love Cooper's prints-he was graduate student when I was an undergraduate at UNM. i used to go to his critiques. VD Coke used to jack him up "photography doesn't need a third generation of b&w landscape photographers". Cooper just kept his mouth shut and did his thing.

I'm not sure I'd agree with Coke outright, but I feel photography doesn't need another 1st or second generation of B&W landscape photographers.

[erie patsellis]

Some of you may not have been around long enough to actually experience the fight for recognition of photography as an art form. It was still going strong (though waining) when I was an undergraduate at UNM in the 60's studying with Beaumont Newhall and Van Deuron Coke et al. The exact same arguments expressed now about digital processes were then aimed at analogue photography by painters, stone lithographers etc.-"Photography is not art. It is machine made" I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard that in my youth. Fortunately that ship sailed along time ago and fell off the edge of the known flat world.

Sadly, it's still going on, the dept. chair at my school (a painter), doesn't consider photography a valid art form. The better you become at your art, both aesthetically and technically, and the less respect he has. So much so that I failed my BFA review solely based on my chosen media being photography. I don't care about a BA vs. a BFA, but the attitude is still prevalent among many.

[Drew Wiley]

Actually, I think photography would benefit if the word "art" was completely erased from our vocabulary. That way idiots could spend their
money just because they are idiots, with no esthetic justification whatsoever; and "art critics" would have to find legitimate jobs like delivering pizzas. But oh, we'd sure miss all the memorable food fights
the expression inevitably generates. And now we have ink as well as gelatin to toss!

[Daniel Stone]

interesting video on TJC



-Dan

[mdm]

That was good. I wonder where he went to make the black ones?

[Steve Smith]

Actually, I think photography would benefit if the word "art" was completely erased from our vocabulary.

It would also be good if people stopped confusing art with the medium/craft used to create it.

e.g. Photography is not art but some photographs are. Painting is not art but some paintings are.


Steve.