CHAPTER 10
THE ZONE SYSTEM AND DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Introduction
Almost 15 years ago I walked into a fine art photography gallery in San Francisco and, with a wry smile, the owner told me that he had some prints by Graham Nash that he thought I should see. To be honest I wasn't expecting them to be more than interesting backstage portraits of rock stars, but what happened next completely changed my sense of what a photographic print could be.
He took me to the print viewing room in the back of the gallery and pulled a large print from a drawer that at first didn't seem unusual; until I noticed that it had a deep and rich but somehow soft quality of blacks that I had never seen before. When I realized that it was printed on what looked ...
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