> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > John Francis > > But nowadays you'd only have to do that work once; after that you could > just turn the handle and crank out near-perfect copies. > Ansel Adams had to perform his magic for every single print; there was > no way for him to save an intermediate version. >
W E Smith, who may well have put more effort into his prints than AA did into his, took copy negs so he could crank 'em out. Or you could do what another set of initials did, who cared very much about his prints despite what many people think, and get someone else to put the effort in. B > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 08:14:34PM -0500, Mark C wrote: > > Yes - his darkroom work was definitely more than 20% of his product > > - my attempt to work in Woody Allen's famous "80% of life..." quote > > missed the mark. > > > > I was one observing some fine Ansel Adam's prints at the Chicago Art > > Institute several years ago and overheard a guy say "Wouldn't it be > > great to have some of his negatives? You could just crank out the > > prints and make a fortune." Economics aside (the value of mass > > produced prints would diminish with each copy) the idea that the > > negative could be reproduced like a piece of paper in a copier was > > pretty idiotic as well, given how much work Ansel put into his > > printing. > > > > MCC -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
