On Mon, November 23, 2009 14:38, lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Damn Kodak for their slogan "You push the button - we do the rest." ! And the Jetsons, for showing how hard George had to work at his job! > One of the core disciplines of all print making is repeatability. Absolutely. It's a core part of the craft. The variation is core knowledge the collectors need to understand. > My print maker friends get all inked up and their output is "hand made." > Same in the photo darkroom - wet, in the dark is good - ink jet printer > is only a copy machine. Hence the idiotic word "GeeeClaaaay" - sounds > arty cuz its french - for ink jet I thought that died 5 or 10 years ago; are people still using the term? > The fake and imitation have always been OK in art. Emulating the look of > other photo or art media may be authentic if you think their look > informs the idea you are going for even if only its a decorative effect. Art is, after all, faking reality. Or at least imitating it. > If you think photography is a form of drawing anything should go. I > try and maintain a distance between "real", or "straight" photos for > certain things I'm doing and drawings or mixed media effects. That is > why Ed M's techniques appeal to me I think it's reasonable to lump it all into "flat visual art". That's a real enough category (many of the subcategories are interesting in their own right, without ceasing to be part of the larger category). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
