diptych # 33-34 ~ taking or making redux

@ the W Hotel ~ Hoboken, NJ • click to embiggenCorner / E4th and Ave.A ~ New York, NY • click to embiggenOn the entry, diptych # 31 ~ my thoughts on taking or making, John Linn commented:

First of all, the diptych attached works particularly well for me. Perhaps it is the color, or the relationship of the referents (to use your term), or the contrasting plains.

Which brings me to the text. By assembling these two images into one picture did you not make an image after taking it? I believe the making (assembling) has created a stronger picture than either of the pictures separated.

I may be splitting hairs / parsing words but, to my way of thinking and making pictures, the moment I tripped the shutter I made the image by using my eyes and in my mind's eye. At that point, the image was made.

Without a doubt and after processing the image file, I produce a print or representation thereof for viewing. However, once again to my way of thinking, the processing of producing a print (or prints in the case of a diptych) is a rather rote craft (albeit carefully and skillfully executed) of putting the previously made image on paper / the web / whatever.

IMO, the printing process is merely the act of making the already made image visible (or placing the already made image on a substrate) - certainly an important act but one which is made possible entirely by the existence of what has been previously made.

At least, that's how I see it.