The rage in art galleries (when did it start?) is big prints. Really big prints. While I was printing some of my 5 x 7's for a portfolio, I wondered (as is I always do): why? And it struck me: it's the same phenomenom as the BIG MOVIE SCREEN and the BIG EFFECT and the LOUD SOUNDTRACK.
You can't get it at home on t.v. - though that is changing too. One of my friends has a t.v. which takes up half his living room.
Anyway - the idea is the same.
And according to my theory - the BIG CRAZE will get worse because you can't print that size at home.
A second corollary: JEEZ, IT MUST BE GOOD. THINK OF THE COST TO PRODUCE SUCH A PRINT. JEEZ. Think of the square footage. If you took it down and put it outside on the lawn you could play football on that thing.
If it follows the same path as cinema, there should be 3-d prints soon, but no one will like them much because of the stupid glasses.
Hold on a sec. Let me get these on. Wow - is that Half Dome? Gives me vertigo just to look at it.
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Actually Craig, I agree that 11x14 prints are big enough, even for a museum, but I went to ICP with Dave and the Kertesz "postage stamps" were too small to enjoy...
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