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.
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Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.
Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.
Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
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.
I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.
I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
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