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Admittedly this is coming a little bit late as it's kind of a response to The New York Photo Festival that happened in May as well as to contemporary photography in general.
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Once you realize that many of these photographers are using large and medium format film it gets even more annoying. A photographer should know they've got a problem on their hands when the finished print doesn't hold up in relation to the film format they're using, cheap vpxl tablets. Buy vpxl online, The only conclusion I can make regarding all this is that photographers are getting lazy, don't really care or just don't have a clue about what they are doing and are afraid to ask. Luckily for them, cheap vpxl pills, the general public as well as the photographic community (collectors, gallerists, curators) doesn't seem to mind either. Although I believe that given adequate time to look and learn, they too will see what's missing.
On the one hand, I'm extremely disappointed and annoyed when I think about what I see on a constant basis in many contemporary galleries and museums. Cheap vpxl tablets, It's basically an affront to the great photographic tradition of beauty and excellence in printmaking. On the other hand, the Crewdson and Soth prints as well as the SVA Thesis exhibition give me great hope for the future of photographic printmaking.
One last thing worth mentioning is the discussion of photography on a computer screen vs. printed and framed on a wall. It seems to me that viewing work online can easily give a false impression about the quality and integrity of a photograph. It's much easier to make photographs look great on a screen where as in reality, in print form, things are much more difficult. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've looked at work online only to be disappointed by the work in person. In this case it isn't just how the photographs are printed but how they actually feel and read on a wall.
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I totally agree with much of what you said. I believe craft is an integral part into making a successful artist and without it.. you pay someone else to create it or it falls short in execution.
Having worked in a digital printing lab (all large format inkjets), I know quality work can be printed. Inkjets can look like C-prints. It all just takes knowledge of color profiling, paper, etc etc.
Yeah.. and I have been disappointed by web viewing in comparison to prints before.. happens both ways. =/
Very interesting article.
Perhaps it is just a question of people catching up with the technology ?
It seems to me that both labs and photographers have a whole new world to learn about, one that keeps accelerating forward.
Or maybe it is a question of cost. The fact that cheaper alternatives exist
might be causing many photographers to forego drum scanning, for example, and try to get away with flatbed scans.
Just a couple of thoughts !
I totally agree with this:
“what makes a photograph a photograph has nothing to do with the chemical nature of the printing process. But it does bother me when a photograph can’t be differentiated from say, an illustration printed on similar paper.”
I work as a graphic designer and we print most of this kind of work on inkjet printers (as a parallel, offset printing is also slowly being replaced !). When I started getting my own photographs printed with the same process as the graphic work I did, I suddenly felt like something had been taken away from the whole photographic process.
“The only conclusion I can make regarding all this is that photographers are getting lazy”
Getting? Photographers always were lazy. Digital is an INVENTION OF LAZINESS…
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I think a lot of photographers are fairly oblivious to the issues you mention and will remain happy with the quality of their work unless the deficiencies are pointed out. Just as with traditional darkroom equipment, scanners, inkjet printers and other digital tools have a steep learning curve. It’s incredibly easy to use them badly, and a lot of people do. I have been focusing on digital printmaking for more than two years now, and I am only now starting to feel confident about the quality of my work. I’ve been looking at a lot of other photographers’ work, both digital and traditional prints, to give myself a benchmark to work toward.
Interestingly enough, it is only now that I have gotten very proficient with inkjet that I am preparing to jump into the world of platinum/palladium printing (using digital inter-negatives). So digital technology has definitely enabled me to take my work to the next level and now sits firmly side-by-side with traditional darkroom processes as valid expressions of photographic art.
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I kind of agree that the old chemical processes produce some beautiful results, but I have seen some pretty amazing prints from some printers too. Like you say, the original scanning process (if taking an image from a nnegative) needs to be done well. It is certainly a lot easier to use an up to date printer.