Cy’s Rollei

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A very short book — one of many short books published by Nazraeli Press.. this one caught my attention because of my interest in Cy Twombly. 

It answers a question that it never asks:

does the camera make the image (interesting)

Of course not — not even the more famous of the photographers makes an interesting image (Sally Mann.) — that is further example of her limitation — she placed third in a very short race with few rules. Of course, my choice of the ‘good’ shot is because it mimics what I’d have made —

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Photographs by Sally Mann, Rob McDonald and Even Rogers.

I rarely buy a book because of the name, or the title — this time I did, just because I was curious, and because I was tempted by the touch of celebrity: Cy’s

It is a curio book… what you will learn, you will learn from the Rob McDonald link above

Adobe Cloudscape. Kodak Fade

photoshop is D-72, as lightroom is dektol. with the cloud change, Adobe told you what Kodak never did – you aren’t the future of the image space

the still image is just poetry; meanwhile everyone else has gone to the movies.

Updated as Fuji prepares its departure from the darkroom — April 2018

unlike the movies, there is no concession stand to pay the employees to maintain an empty theater. Fuji’s coating is minuscule compared to its colorant chemistry division. Their patents are now for sensor and inkjet chemistry. The darkroom is no longer profitable.

Once again: a truck stop on the interstate makes (earns) more in a month than Ilford does in a year.