[woodruffw]

I empathize with this position, but I think this situation is closer to authentic restoration (which the art world is okay with, generally speaking) than an unguided machine transformation of a human work.

(I've visited just about every Klimt exhibit in Vienna, including the one that these B&W photographs are in. I think they've done a remarkably faithful job here, down to accurately capturing the subperiod of Klimt's "gold period").