{"id":4362,"date":"2014-08-24T09:52:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T09:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2014-08-24T09:52:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T09:52:55","slug":"richard-benson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=4362","title":{"rendered":"Richard Benson"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Facebook post by Dayanita Singh<\/em> who I mentioned in the previous post and which was reposted to me by curator Peggy Sue Amison<\/em> reminded me of a fine site by Richard Benson<\/em>, The Printed Picture<\/a>, which I’d not looked at for some years. Indeed there is much on the site I’ve never looked at all as the entire talk by him on it takes 8 hours, but is fortunately split into short digestible sections such as ‘Black and White Inkjet Printing<\/a>‘. Text and some examples accompany each of these short videos. It isn’t\u00a0 a ‘how-to guide’ and some of the technical details are rather vague, but it is a grand overview of everything to do with printing images from marks on cave walls to modern times. Be warned it is an addictive site and you may find – like me – you spend more time on it than you really have.<\/p>\n

The text on the site comes from the book, The Printed Picture<\/em> (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2008 and still apparently available from the MoMA store<\/a> – though cheaper elsewhere) and an exhibition of the same name at The Museum of Modern Art<\/em> in 2008-9, so is not completely up to date with the latest developments in ink-jet printing.<\/p>\n

Richard Benson started as a printer which led him to take an interest in photography, and as his biography <\/a>at the Pace\/MacGill Gallery<\/em> (where you can also see his photographs) states “has been instrumental in revolutionizing the technologies and standards for photographic reproduction in ink<\/em>“. Among many fine works that have benefited from his expertise are over a dozen Lee Friedlander<\/em> monographs and the monumental ‘The Work of Atget<\/em>‘, 4 superbly produced volumes published by MoMA in 1981-5. But almost every finely reproduced photographic book in the last 40 or more years owes something either first or second-hand to his work. You can read an interview with him<\/a> by John Paul Caponigro<\/em>, first published in 1997 in View Camera<\/em> magazine on Caponigro’s site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Facebook post by Dayanita Singh who I mentioned in the previous post and which was reposted to me by curator Peggy Sue Amison reminded me of a fine site by Richard Benson, The Printed Picture, which I’d not looked at for some years. Indeed there is much on the site I’ve never looked at … Continue reading Richard Benson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-history","category-photo-issues","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4365,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions\/4365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}