“The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.” – Ansel Adams.
Nowadays we no longer refer to the “negative” but to the “digital file”- something that when viewed on a suitable display is actually a positive. Change the word and Ansel Adams’ quotation is as true now as it was then. Still, there is nothing else that better epitomizes a photographer’s work than the photographic print. Continue reading In Praise of Printing