Seems to me that every new analog print, from a negative is an original. No matter how many notes one keeps uncontrollable variences in the environment can change the print. Not to mention the mood of the printer at the time of the printing and subsequent printings. In my mind it is no different that any other hand-made process. That is what makes hand-made, hand-made. Now, if you scan and print and keep hitting print there is no variance. That is what makes mass produced, mass produced.
As for the fire thing,
Family and animals. Screw the rest.
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Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. Pope Paul VI
So, I think the "greats" were true to their visions, once their visions no longer sucked. Ralph Barker 12/2004
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