Automotive Gallery Art Purchasing Information
These are current technology photographic enlargements.
Each gallery quality enlargement is available in the signature size: 24” x 17”, or the size of your choice.
Each Automotive Gallery Art piece is individually produced from the original 35mm slide or digital exposure.
Only 5 enlargements will be made from each photograph.
$900 for each signed print.
production time is six to eight weeks.
There are three enlargement formats.
The first option is new aluminum sheet reproductions.
We haven't put the purchase link in yet, so email for more information.
The third option is the paper below. This is another new tech paper that reproduces the composition in a matte lithographic manner. It has a satisfying depth and thickness of color application, providing a superb opaque strength of image.
The intense glare of the light on the studio surface below print shows performance of paper’s matte finish.
Enlargements are dry mounted and shipped in custom artwork boxes. Packaging, handling and shipping are included in the purchase.
To purchase use the paypal link on the page of the photograph you would like.
Selecting the paypal links you see here, you can choose the Metallic paper or the Matte finish.
Would like more information?
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or call: 510.388.2636
The second option is a new tech metallic paper.
Here's the story behind this paper. I did not want the prints to be merely gloss photo stock, upon which display lighting would flare across the composition. I also wanted the enlargements to be viewed without being behind a glass plate frame, with distracting ebony or pine frame. Creating the same light flare situation across the composition..
So we went in search of a paper that would take lighting in a detailed manner, without distracting from the image, while enhancing all aspects of the composition.
This paper was chosen to express the composition, Take a close look at the photo of the paper’s surface below. You will see how it achieves the lighting performance sought. The surface is textured, like leather or raw cast aluminum. Being metallic paper it also subtly enhances the subliminal read of the automotive compositions.
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The Gallery
Where chromatic abstract compositions converge with representational imagery describing the engineering of the automobiles photographed
In a galley setting there is always a discussion with the artist about his work. Lift your glass of wine, single malt, micro brew, here goes…
Having trained as a technical illustrator during the art school years, I saw photography as my abstract medium. A visual platform upon which shape, light and color could be examined for its own sake, as opposed to a representational portrayal of instantaneous journalistic storytelling.
In moving into automotive photography a few decades ago I saw the potential of bringing the two worlds together: portraying the near abstract compositions of shape, light and color, while clearly, if subtly, representing the design, craftsmanship, engineering and performance inherent in the subject.
There is also a third element here, specific to automotive photography. Having spent a professional life in the photo studio, art directing product photography, my photographic style clearly states that it is only beneath natural light that the automobile truly reveals itself.
Why have I gone into photographic philosophy here? To discuss the photographic product on offer for these images. I have been in photographic art reproduction since photo enlargements from 35mm E6 slides required an inter-negative. The hyphen is used here for reading clarity. So yes, I've spent my time in the darkroom, and been on the cutting edge of photo reproduction as it has advanced, in fits and starts, into the digital age. As such I have chosen for this first series of reproductions to produce them all on aluminum sheet. This very modern exhibit material lends itself nicely to the subject.
Now this said, if you would prefer a matte finish, lithograph image for framing, or the pebbled metallic reproduction stock, we can discuss these choices, as every purchase begins with an email for phone call prior to purchase.
I write 'first series' here as I have turned down orders while we were buried in development of our new pre-press and on-press protocols for the publications. Now that these processes are firmly in place for Automobilist Century and the Alfa & Ferrari book, we are turning our attention to the very limited custom production of the gallery display art here.
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