Thanks for the tip! I won't be able to see it, but the link itself was very interesting. Those prints look iconic. To me the net result is that we now have an almost subconscious mental link between the subject matter and the look of the prints. By that I mean that, if we could somehow look at the 1960's and 70's in modern digital clarity, it wouldn't "look" the way those of us who grew up in that time now remember it.
I've always been interested in how photographs become the memory...
That would be cool to see, but me not in Chelsea, or near it. I do have a book of his images, certainly an interesting fellow and a good eye and look to his work.
Of course, in photography you don't see much more in person than in online copies or books, unlike paintings, where studying the brushstrokes or simply being present with the original work is a memorable connection. So, it's only a convenience to see them, arranged in a nice setting, if you happen to be in town.
What is interesting is the qualitly of the dye transfer printing. I had an acquaintance who was a dye transfer printer. Very odd man who lived in the city like a hermit who was completely dedicated to it. He hoarded the materials and continued to print well after Kodak stopped making them, but wandered the earth like the Ancient Mariner after they ran out.
It was so expensive to dye transfer print that I only remember seeing dye transfer prints in the lobbies of large corporations and art galleries in the '70s and '80s.
