I think the watercolor book example is specifically pertinent to that art and its practitioners.
To me as a photographer, because of the kind of work I do, the process (which is a horrendously vague term) is very important to me, because all the phases of the process I go through, from pre/visualization to finished framed print, are important. I wouldn't produce the kind of work I do if they weren't. To a potential customer, and even moreso to a casual, disinterested viewer of my work, all that is meaningless. They could care less about how I decided to shoot what I shot, what film I shot it with, how I developed the film, and what kind of paper I printed it on. Because I'm printing platinum/palladium, I do get a somewhat more interested audience, and they'll ask questions sometimes that do get in to the technical, but usually nothing more than what kind of print it is, and maybe why did I choose to print using that media. |