"William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: "Jack Davis" > >> The "preparation" was applied while spending endless hours in the >> darkroom agonizing over printing "Hernandez" the way He saw it. >> Hard to believe the time He spent printing that particular image. >> Purportedly, His most sought after. In fact, one of His books >> identified it as the main reasons He finally decided to stop providing >> personally done prints. > >Much of that preparation was also knowing his film, equipment and light.
That's exactly what I was getting at. <snip> >I saw an original Moonrise, signed by St. Ansel in a gallery in Santa Fe >some years ago. He hadn't quite secured the depth of field required, and if >you look carefully, you can see the crosses in the graveyard are slighly >soft. >They wanted $15,000 for the print, and had I been able to afford it, I would >have bought it. It was a lovely photograph. >Being able to hold an original AA print in my hands was quite a nice >experience as well. If you're ever anywhere near Rochester, NY you should stop in at the George Eastman House. With a little advance notice they'll let you see any print in their collection personally. They have a pretty amazing collection :) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
