Bruce is being tongue-in-cheek with his "Photoshopping" comment, but there was lots of photo manipulation being done in film days (and before) both at the negative and in the printing (as with the work of one of my photographic hero's Jerry Uelsmann.) I wouldn't be surprised if
http://120pearls.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/film-photo-manipulation-b-p-before-photoshop/ http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2012/09/28/before-photoshop-how-photographers-have-been-manipulating-images-for-years See also: Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop (Metropolitan Museum of Art) by Mia Fineman http://www.amazon.com/Faking-Manipulated-Photography-Photoshop-Metropolitan/dp/0300185014/ In fact, it appears (from Google Books) that Ms. Fineman's book includes some discussion involving the work of William Mortensen. A footnote in her bibliography makes reference to a June 1934 "Camera Craft 41" article written by William Mortensen entitled "Fallacies of 'Pure Photography'". That might be interesting to track down. On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Very cool, but I suspect Photoshopping. > > :) > > Thanks for that article, Bob. My kind of stuff. > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: >> Some good stuff here: >> >> http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/oct/06/american-nightmares-the-photography-of-william-mortensen >> >> B >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- 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.
