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To: Michelino who wrote (8035)	6/21/2004 8:24:05 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21647

What would be unusual is that if Michal does publish these to paper, any viewer can still get an exact copy of the original with just a few clicks.... Well, there is that. However, as has happened to me so many times over the past few years -- I click on a link to go back and look at some favourite website I have bookmarked and -- nada -- it's gone. Quite apart from the above possibility, there is also an "archival" aspect of these photos that should probably be considered. When I say "archival" I'm actually meaning that these photos contain some of the history of our times -- history that is often not recorded in the mainstream. Stuff that exists outside of the borders. While we may think that this part of history is being recorded daily by photographers, that's not truly the case. There is a lot going on in these photos -- a lot due to Michal's way of seeing the world -- and the right-place-right-time factor -- and also the nature of the eyemod photo as being more candid and less disruptive to what is going on in the scene. Also, the lower resolution strips away a lot of the extraneous detail that doesn't really figure in each scene (texture, subtle gradation of light and shadow, etc..). We don't really need the resolution to see and know what is happening in each photo. As for the candid nature of these photos, I just have to think about the photos that were put up from the Freedom Ride in NYC a couple of weeks ago. The photo-ops get mighty scarce when 40+ people with big cameras slung around their necks set out to stalk the streets or subways in search of interesting subjects. <g> Also in support of the book format. Sometimes it's just darned nice to be able to sit back and flip through a book and not have to sit looking at the computer. However, there is still that image quality question. I don't find there is a problem with the resolution on-screen -- there's a flatness to the colours and sometimes a gritty quality that gives a different feel to the photos -- an interesting feel that lands somewhere beyond photos and into painting. Difficult to define what I mean by that, but there are things about the areas of colour that remind me of how they might appear in paintings. I don't think that lack of resolution = loss of quality by any means. The larger problem, as I see it, is that there's a certain luminosity in all images that are viewed on our computer screens. How will that translate to the printed page? We know the photos from their on-screen presence -- with light glowing through colour. That may not translate so well to the flatness and lack of luminosity of printer's ink on paper -- even highly finished paper. Anyhow, all interesting things to think about. And further to some of what el polvo wrote last night, you don't want to lose too much of the feel of The Street by making the quality too damned nice either. <g> croc