To the OP. If you know what you are doing, lithography is no more of a challenge to create an image. Lithography is more time consuming and the artists needs more of a deft hand, but conceptually lithography and photography are on par with each other. Both systems make images by chemical means. If you don’t understand chemistry then forget about it, that is, with both photography and lithography. I owned two litho presses and 12 stones and an etching press for twenty years. I recently sold all my printmaking equipment and have concentrated on my 8x10 film work. No regrets. But printmaking is cool. In photography one can never get the Smokey blacks of charbonel inks. Hand work of any kind is always a charm to look at. However photography has an exactness that is cold and biting, which I love. The clarity it provides the viewer of the image , does not lead to ambiguity. Generally speaking. Photography is an exclamation mark, where lithography/drawings tends to be question marks. I was heavily influenced by jasper johns in my early years/ art school 30 years ago. The print work of his, in collaboration with ULAE were/ are impressive. And I continue to look to All print , that includes photographs, work as a source of inspiration. Other like landfall press and Gemini were Also creating great stuff in the 60’s -90’s and I guess even today. In some ways, printmaking is superior, but then again, . . . Any image that touches you regardless of what the process is a work of art.
