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When is a photograph created?
Philosophical question. 
What do you consider your creation date of a photograph? When you take it or when you print it? Would this change if you reprint a negative using a different process?
You can have my film camera from my cold dead hands
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I think it´s the moment you press the shutter. The printing is only interpretation.
Benjamin
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Agreed. Everything leading upto the mashing of the button is composition. Even if you don't print your own negs, someone else will.
I liken it to composers score and conductor. The composer sets the music down physically as best he can. Then musicians will sonically print it.
If the composer does the printing, so much the better.
- J. Richard
4x5 Speed Graphic, Bronica etrs, Pentax K-1000 w/standard 50mm (because I still haven't found the need for something better).
I need a decent rangefinder to replace the k1k with, any suggestions?
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1st trimester: intent, location, composition, lighting, timing, lens & film choice, ending with exposure.
2nd trimester: film development and proofing, ending with contact print. Likely abort point.
3rd trimester: test prints, contrast adjusting, cropping, toning, ending with final display print.
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A photograph is conceived when first it is conceived.
It starts with someone thinking about creating a particular photograph, some way or another.
Its creation is complete when there is something to look at that resembles what it was first thought it should look like. When you decide that you will no longer try to do that very same thing, and move on.
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A work of art is not, in my opinion, a mere artefact, but a succession of actions, gestures, interventions, manipulations, etc. In other words, a performance (no, I did not invent that notion, I got it there:
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Performanc.../dp/1405116676)
So, your work, your photograph is created when you stop working on it. If you want your photograph to be created at the moment you click the shutter, then I guess your photograph exists, but only as a latent image on a roll of film prisoner inside a camera.
Using film since before it was hip.
"One of the most singular characters of the hyposulphites, is the property their solutions possess of dissolving muriate of silver and retaining it in considerable quantity in permanent solution" — Sir John Frederick William Herschel, "On the Hyposulphurous Acid and its Compounds." The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Vol. 1 (8 Jan. 1819): 8-29. p. 11
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 Originally Posted by Michel Hardy-Vallée
If you want your photograph to be created at the moment you click the shutter, then I guess your photograph exists, but only as a latent image on a roll of film prisoner inside a camera.
That's totally going into the statement! "Freed from the prison of iron bars, Chim-Chim himself imprisons latent images inside cameras."
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When a collection of thoughts makes me go to a place, position the tripod (if I'm using one) pre-visualize the image and press the shutter. It's quite mundane really.
But often you know the instant you've taken the image that it's special. . . . . . I've never been wrong.
Ian
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It isn't created. It is seen. And then realized / abstracted by the process.
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