For those of you who haven't had the opportunity to see "In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes before the Digital Age" at the National Gallery of Art, go! It's a fabulous exhibition of photography and quite educational about traditional photographic processes. You can find out the details at http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/darkroominfo.shtm.
I'd like to see them follow up with an exhibition of what I would call, "On the Computer: Photographic Processes in the Digital Age." It would make a nice comparison.
Speaking of the digital world, another exhibition at the National Gallery is "Robert Bergman: Portraits, 1986–1995." One of the interesting things about the exhibition is that all of the prints are inkjet and the National Gallery labeled them as such. No "archival inks on paper" or "pigment prints", just "inkjet." Maybe the legitimacy of digital processes is finally taking hold without the need for euphemisms if a museum with the prestige of the National Gallery feels comfortable with the term "inkjet."
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