Article: The Print Is The Performance ? So Much Heat, So Little Light
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The Print Is The Performance ? So Much Heat, So Little Light
The American master of photography, Ansel Adams, said ?The negative is comparable to the composer's score, and the print to its performance.? That holds true today as much as it did when first uttered. Although in the digital age the discussion about the print generates more heat than light.
Artists have been producing prints for eons using a variety of techniques. Etching, lithograph, mezzotint and more recently serigraph (the fancy name for silk screen printing) have been used by the likes of Rembrandt through to Warhol. Each used the best technology available to them to transfer their ideas on to their chosen paper support.
Today in the 21st Century as the internal combustion engine has replaced the horse and buggy as a preferred means of transport so dig...
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