There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.
Anything written or printed under a print or picture takes the attention from it and, if it is very black or white in any marked degree, will utterly destroy its beauty.
If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.
I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.
For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.
Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.
I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.