Nash Editions - Photography and the Art of Digital Printing

[johnastovall]

This is a book you should read but is not about how to do digital prints. It about the bigger and more important issue how we got digital printing and where it's going.

This is both the story of Nash Editions and the evolution of fine art digital printing. There are hundreds of images done at Nash Editions and three essays by R. Mac Holbert, Richard Benson and Henry Wilhelm. Holbert tell us how the road manager of "Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young" came to help give birth to the modern fine art digital printer. Richard Benson writes on the four stages photography as gone through from Talbot Fox's development of the negative-positive process to digital printing of a digital file. The final and to me crowning essay is Henry Wilhelm's "A History of Permanence." This is a must read essay on if just to learn about the "Lost Era of Kodacolor" and how Kodak's fail to disclose problems with it Kodacolor process has lost us a decade of color images. And how digital printing processes have only reached long term permanence in the last five years.

But the images will keep you coming back to this book time after time for insights and inspiration.