> > From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/03/29 Wed PM 12:17:06 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Talking photography - dynamics > > John Coyle wrote: > > >From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >> Aaron Reynolds wrote: > >> > >>>On Mar 28, 2006, at 4:54 PM, frank theriault wrote: > >>> > >>>> The only "rule" I recognize is that for real art, one must use film. > >>>> The corollary to that is that digital is without soul, and is clearly > >>>> the work of the Satan. > >>> > >>>You and your soul-less flexible base film -- bah, I spit on your > >>>plastic resins! Real art is made on GLASS PLATES, you heathen. > >> > >> Glass plates, eh? Gettin' all fancy and modern on us, eh? > >> Real photography is done on copper plate just like Louis Daguerre > >> intended! > >> > >No it ain't - it's done on bitumen, just like Nicephore Niepce intended, or > >on whatever Josiah Wedgwood was working with... > > > >This doesn't help, does it? > > The very first photographic images, made by Humphrey Davey around > 1726(!) were supposedly made on *leather*. > > The reason Humphrey Davey isn't known as the inventor of photography > is probably that he never invented a fixing solution. Oops. :) >
I thought we were talking about art here. You know, the stuff where you make one of something and then reel off thousands of copies. Not this one-off, unique, every-one-is different daguerrotype/bitumen/leather crap. FBS ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
