8/18/10

A Master Printer


Over on TOP, here part1, and part 2. A two part article by the Photographer, Peter Turnley.

From the press release:
"Today, Mike Johnstonʼs The Online Photographer (TOP), a photography news and
discussion website for photographers, has published a significant original article. Itʼs a
profile of Voja Mitrovic (“Voja” is pronounced “Voya”), the darkroom master who printed
for Cartier-Bresson, Koudelka, Sebastiao Salgado, Werner Bischof, René Burri, Marc
Riboud, Robert Doisneau, Edouard Boubat, Man Ray, Helmut Newton, Raymond Depardon,
Bruno Barbey, Jean Gaumy, Frederic Brenner, Max Vadukul, and Peter Lindbergh
to name a few."

The descriptions of the compexities of B&W printing are wonderful, and as usual, the commentary is very good. 

In my youth I spent a lot of time in wet darkrooms, so I have a lot of respect for the skills involved.