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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: 280 megapixels
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:28:36 -0800
On 1/17/2011 6:48 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> . . . And really, I've never seen an inkjet print that I thought would equal 
> a good wet print.

Perhaps y'all need to get out more? :-)

Having within a few days of each other seen Bob's gallery prints and original 
prints by folks like St. Ansel, Edward 
Weston and their contemporaries, mostly 8x10 contact prints, my experience is 
that top notch B&W wet and inkjet* prints 
are on a visual par.

Considering the wider range of control one doing digital printing has, I think 
it has the potential to create a better 
print from a difficult or flawed original, digital or film capture, than wet 
printing.

I've seen quite a few other matchups, although none directly from the same 
source, that led me to the same conclusion, 
but the juxtaposition of Bob's prints with those in the Portland Art Museum is 
the most recent in my memory and involves 
the most prestigious original wet prints.

Moose

* Which I prefer to the 'la de da' name early fine art printers took on to 
cover the plebeian inkjet. I also find it 
somewhat unattractive as a label for prints, considering:

"In modern French slang, /giclée/ means ‘cum shot’ or ‘spurt of ejaculate,’ not 
surprisingly, considering that the noun 
/giclée/ originated as the feminine past participle of the French verb /gicler/ 
‘to squirt’ or ‘to spurt.’ " 
<http://www.billcasselman.com/unpublished_works/giclee.htm>
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