Just so, Chuck.
Chris
On 14 Dec 2008, at 02:25, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> It sometimes helps to ask yourself if you'd be studying the image at
> all
> if there was an unknown name attached. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Wayne Harridge wrote:
>>> But then perhaps they don't transfer to the screen very well. There
>>> are some interesting mixes of colours, but many of them are too dark
>>> to see. You'd have to have a pretty light place to find the subject
>>> in some of them.
>>
>> I agree Chris, some of them don't transfer to the screen well and
>> the reason
>> is that the images didn't transfer very well to the original
>> prints ! I've
>> seen some of his original prints (I think it was a 30yr
>> retrospective in
>> Melbourne a few years ago), some printed maybe 2m wide, some I
>> thought were
>> very disappointing considering his reputation. You can understand
>> that the
>> technical quality might be a bit poor given that he was shooting in
>> very low
>> light, but in some cases the actual subject matter was just not
>> interesting.
>
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