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Work of some of my ex-students

(Updated Fall 2007) Some amazing and outstanding work, often underrepresented, and as digital images which do not do justice to the originals. There is a lot more I would like to show, but it is not always convenient to make slides, scan photographs, or convert digital. If your work is missing here, contact me and arrange to send images.

The image quality has varied with the use of a number of different flatbed scanners and film scanners used at Columbia, and my own various devices. Image manipulation has shifted over the years, starting with Photoshop, then with Paint Shop Pro, and currently with the Gimp.

Most images are under 600 pixels wide, generally reduced to 8-bit color depth, and vary from 125 to 600 dpi. Jpegs are compressed 65 percent to the edge of acceptability. Gamma has been adjusted for the PC standard, rather than Mac. A 1024x768 screen is recommended, although a 640x480 will do. But set your monitor for 24 bit operation, especially for B&W images.

Many files are large by internet standards. If all of the images do not expand, blame your browser's cache settings, your computor's RAM, or figure you have a slow connection to the internet.

Many images are work prints from intermediate work, or contact proofs (including digital proofs) where finish in terms of density and contrast is missing. These are not the final presentation prints. As a viewer, I ask you to consider the imaginative completion of an assignment, or the compositional finesse - not the physical aspects. Most view camera projects presented here look easy for a 35mm camera, but strain the limits for a 4x5 camera.

This page got much too large by 2007, so I have cut it up into chewable chunks by school years, as follows.

[1998, 1999, 2000, 2001]
[2002, 2003, 2004]
[2005, 2006, 2007]

All images carry implied copyrights by the original artists, or are protected under the terms of the Creative Commons License - see the [about printing] page for information.

/jno