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Re: [OM] (OM) not - Bill Henson in Oz

Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) not - Bill Henson in Oz
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:25:34 -0500
It sometimes helps to ask yourself if you'd be studying the image at all 
if there was an unknown name attached.  :-)

Chuck Norcutt

Wayne Harridge wrote:
>> But then perhaps they don't transfer to the screen very well.  There  
>> are some interesting mixes of colours, but many of them are too dark  
>> to see.  You'd have to have a pretty light place to find the subject  
>> in some of them.
> 
> I agree Chris, some of them don't transfer to the screen well and the reason
> is that the images didn't transfer very well to the original prints !  I've
> seen some of his original prints (I think it was a 30yr retrospective in
> Melbourne a few years ago), some printed maybe 2m wide, some I thought were
> very disappointing considering his reputation.  You can understand that the
> technical quality might be a bit poor given that he was shooting in very low
> light, but in some cases the actual subject matter was just not interesting.
> 
>> It's a good thing that AndrewF isn't listening ... :-)
>>
>  
> I wonder ?
> 
> ...Wayne
> 
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