[LargeFormat] (t)here Magazine

[Douglas Cooper]

On 2/15/01 5:30 AM, Clive Warren expressed the following:


> 
> Douglas,
> 
> Haven't seen this particular magazine here in the UK - if you have more
> details then I'll try to get hold of the copy you described - sounds
> excellent.  Is the magazine available in the UK?

I suspect not.  The cover only gives prices in US and Canadian dollars.
Might be able to find it at a specialized photography or graphic design
store.

I imagine the distribution will grow quickly; this issue is considerably
more expensive looking than the last, meaning that they're pouring cash into
the project.  The publisher is:

Lexington Digital
410 W. 14th St., 3rd floor
New York NY 10014

http://www.t-here.com is worth visiting; a couple of images are floating
about there, including a silhouette of my head...  In fact, you could order
by email from the site.

> 
> A quick aside on your web site - brilliant!   Happened to be at a friend's
> place last night and she hardly ever "surfs" or looks at sites which are
> not directly related to a particular requirement as she can't stand the
> tedious navigation metaphors and turgid text on many sites.  Your site has
> the honour of being bookmarked on her machine :-) We both enjoyed our visit
> last night immensely :-)

Thanks!  It's taken most of my life away from me, this past couple of
months.


> 
> If keeping digital work alive requires a re-interpretation through the
> medium of paint - what does that say about large format photography - if
> anything......... I have been rephotographing digital work and in some
> cases then scanning again and printing out on cartridge paper.  The
> possibilities and permutations are infinite and guided by the
> pre-visualisation but modified by experience of seeing each stage of the
> image.

Do you have these posted anywhere?  I'm particularly interested in issues of
generational and iterative decay.  I think it's one of the ways in which the
digital realm can be rendered less sterile.

> 
> Large Format photography is one of the few photographic mediums (ie not
> digital) which to some extent facilitates a similar process - you
> pre-visualise the image, set up and examine on ground glass, then your
> experience in the technical aspects of photography act as an additional
> tool which modifies and transforms the image in your head even before
> opening the shutter.  Effects of lens selection, less or more exposure,
> perspective, depth of field, push or pull processing - all add to the image
> making process...... The real freedom comes when the technical stuff is
> second nature and the image becomes the primary concern....
> 

True enough.  I'm finding that Photoshop is a natural extension of that
process (except that in recent versions, you can cheat -- what with multiple
undo's, you no longer have to previsualize so much as experiment); I'm
almost at the point where the technical side of Photoshop is second nature
-- but I'm nowhere near that with large format.  Problem is, I have much
more opportunity to use my Leica than I do my 4x5, as I don't have a studio.

Thanks for the comments!


cheers,


Douglas Cooper
http://www.dysmedia.com