tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post2426960804979613070..comments2024-02-17T07:59:18.705-08:00Comments on Grad Student Madness: Everyone's a Critic...Rufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17762279210783841414noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-87793114084611050962007-10-15T22:23:00.000-07:002007-10-15T22:23:00.000-07:00No, I thought the same thing. But I figure it's pr...No, I thought the same thing. But I figure it's probably uncharitable to think that, so I'll drop the idea.Rufushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762279210783841414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-52360430510146180742007-10-15T11:16:00.000-07:002007-10-15T11:16:00.000-07:00I have to admit, I actually spent some time wonder...I have to admit, I actually spent some time wondering if maybe it was a set-up, something to re-kindle a little edgy-ness for Serrano. <BR/><BR/>But then I realized I'm getting paranoid in my old age, and quit thinking about it.Hollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10593117152792976823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-73042798014033439242007-10-15T07:10:00.000-07:002007-10-15T07:10:00.000-07:00I had no idea it was so difficult. Well, you learn...I had no idea it was so difficult. Well, you learn something new every day, Chief.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I'd imagine that these guys couldn't be that hard to find. They clearly want attention, which means they've probably told everyone they know about what they did. And I'd guess that, after this, a lot more galleries will have armed guards.Rufushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762279210783841414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-36509624581472816222007-10-14T22:32:00.000-07:002007-10-14T22:32:00.000-07:00Erm, gotta disagree with your policework there, Lo...Erm, gotta disagree with your policework there, Lou. The idea that photographic fine art prints can be easily recreated is a fallacy, possibly perpetuated by folks who still reject photography as a "real" form of fine art. <BR/><BR/>While it's true that it's easy enough to reprint from negatives that were developed at printed entirely in the machine at the FotoMat... art prints often come through a painstaking process of individually supervised development, meaning customs mixtures of the chemicals, particular temperatures, and timed specifically to the image on the negative. Also, the negatives are usually larger, and not infrequently developed one at a time. Once they're fixed and dried, the negative may be altered--at any point during the printing process, in fact--and sometimes the prints themselves are exposed repeatedly, or multiple negatives are used. There are a variety of techniques to customize the print, as well, selectively increasing the exposure to localized areas of the image. After that, the print itself is developed, fixed, and dried, and there are numerous occasions in that process to introduce alterations, either intentionally or accidentally.<BR/><BR/>Artists who release editions of their prints--pulling multiple prints from the same negative(s)--generally get a rhythm going, where they're making the same moves over and over, but there's no way two prints would be identical in that case, and it's even less likely that a new print made even from the same negatives many years later would look the same. Occasionally, like printmakers, photographers will destroy the negative when they're finished printing.<BR/><BR/>Now... for all *I* know, Andres Serrano had his film developed at the FotoMat in the parking lot of his local KMart, and printed "straight" (ie, by the book, no editorial effort, no fancy moves)... and even if that's true, which I doubt, that doesn't make rampaging around smashing them any less of a dick move. Worse, I'm reasonably certain that these asshats will continue to do this crap if they're not caught soon. Or, hell, even so.Hollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10593117152792976823noreply@blogger.com