Re: New thoughts

[Andy Darlow <andy@andydarlow.com>]

I concur with both of you gentlemen.  If you go back a few decades to the
work of Man Ray, I think that a similiar conclusion can be made. He created
many effects which would probably take endless hours in Photoshop just to
emulate.  

-Andy Darlow

At 07:25 AM 7/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
>At 09:34 PM 7/18/99 -0700, James Irelan wrote:
>
>
>>I had one realization: I was looking
>>at a Jerry Uelsmann image, and I suddenly realized:  for all the ease
>>and power of Photoshop in one of its strongest and most widely used suits, 
>>that of compositing, this Uelsmann image is more powerful and affecting 
>>than virtually any digital image I can think of.  And, in fact, I
>>actively dislike many digital composites because they look busy and
>>phony.  Uelsmann's images look majestic and magical.  Now, does that mean 
>>I'm going to buy 11 more enlargers?  What am I, nuts?  It does mean that 
>>tools are tools. The most cumbersome of methods can be made to
>>work, and the most facile of methods does not guarantee art or vision or
>>even craft.
>
>
>That was a nice piece, James.  So much 
>simple, common sense.  What a rarity!
>
>Nice to hear from someone who mentions
>and appreciates the old masters of the
>craft.
>
>Or who appreciates that, just because
>something *can* be done (with new-found
>technology) doesn't mean it *should* be
>done.
>
>
>
>rafe b.
>
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