NEW YORK STORIES
Price List and Gallery Guide
Subway Series
Images #8~19
When I took up photography in earnest, making a darkroom and learning the craft of film and printing, I came across a somewhat archaic and beautiful panoramic camera, called a Widelux. It turned out to be a wonderful teaching tool as it was very difficult to operate, having no focus, a strange mechanical, moving lens/shutter device and only a few useable shutter speeds. The decision to use it in the subway, only added to the challenges I faced and tried to solve. For three years, I spent a great deal of time in the ‘Belly of the Beast’ with my camera. Metropolis Magazine saw my work and gave me a story to shoot which got published. Great start to my life in photography!
Shortly afterwards, showed my work to someone at Barnes and Noble and she offered me an exhibit in their then flagship location in the Citicorp building. Only problem, there were no interior walls! A clever assistant friend came up with the idea of constructing “beams” and suspending them from the high ceiling. The large piece on the mantel is the sole survivor.
The 12 images on display were shot on film (using the Widelux), developed and printed by me. The prints are silver gelatin on 11x 14 paper and are vintage, archivally processed. They are from a limited edition of 6. These are all 1/6
Prices:
The subway images are priced unframed at
$350.00
Custom sizes and printing options are available.
Subway Maquette
This is a one off hand made mockup of the large framed piece. Vintage.
$400.00
Large Subway Frame/Image (on mantel)
NFS
Coney Island
Images # 1~7
Made 2010/2012 on Coney Island. While working on my commercial work, using large format and studio lighting, I felt a need to get out on the street and make images that reflected where my love of the camera had started, by studying the work of the greats, Cartier Bresson, Winogrand, Davidson and so many others. Finally, one hot evening, I retreated to a bar on the boardwalk, a real, true Dive Bar, and started downing gin and tonics. Some time later, I awoke on the subway. I was disoriented, didn’t recall what train or what the time it was. I panicked and reached for my camera bag. Miracle of miracles, it was still there. I visited Coney many more times, but that was the last time I went out drinking on the boardwalk.
Prices:
Photos are 11 x 14 inches, shot on full frame digital and printed with a blue duotone.
All images on display are priced at 300.00
unframed
Seed Boxes
(Constructs #1)
Images # 40~45
While walking my dog one Autumn morning, I saw the seed head of a Milkweed plant, cut it off and brought it home. It was stunning. For the next few weeks, I kept bringing home all sorts of seeds, pods, and stems, and stored them in 4x5 film boxes. Then, on the weekend of the New York City marathon I observed the use of old fashioned snow drift fencing for crowd control. When rolled or unrolled, they tended to lose the odd slat and the parks dept had no way of repairing them so in time, they would dispose of the slats. So I started collecting the slats. Not a lot, but a few here and there with no purpose in mind. That winter, I decided to move the seeds from the film boxes and construct new boxes, same size (4x5) out of the recycled wooden slats…lined with small pieces of newsprint from the NY Times, and finished this off by making a photograph of each box with my 4x5 camera and a favorite film, the legendary Polaroid Type 55.
Prices
All are priced at $ 300.00 each unframed.
The actual boxes, There is one on display have been fitted with screens to prevent the contents from falling out, and are for sale by appointment. There is one on display here in the gallery.
I have the complete set of at my studio and are priced at $ 400.00 each.
News Series
(Constructs #2)
Images # 21~30
Like my seed boxes, they evolved on their own. I have been doing a great deal of studio work over the years, primarily for art dealers and collectors, and I have a studio with all the bells and whistles and this creates a desire to find certain surfaces and lighting combinations that shake me up and help me think ‘outside the box’. My love of paper goes way back to early childhood and especially newsprint. In art school we tore through reams of newsprint in our drawing classes making gesture drawings. Something about the color, texture, the drag of the pen, pencil, charcoal over the surface and even the sound. I was collecting photos from the morning NY Times and after I had a pile of some significance, took to taking photos of the newspaper. I tried a lot of things, comparing the surface of the newsprint to the surface of the photograph of the newsprint. How I ended up with a metal bowl nailed to the wall of my studio by a window, I have no idea. (Well, there is North Light and so, why not?) The first series were made on film and developed in the darkroom and toned with selenium and sepia then mounted on acid free board. They are all one off as presented, a series of one.
Subsequently, this year in January, I began a new series with the current version of newspaper, which is formulated for color printing. It is not the same but having color allows me to experiment in the computer and find new compositions. What you see in these images is for you to explore. I prefer the ambiguity in them. There are many meanings if you choose to ask yourself the right questions. There are two basic themes to the compositions here: “Stealing Beauty” and “Breughal.”
Prices
All the color images are 12.5 inches square and are on the South Wall at $300 each.
I have more in the series by appointment. This is an ongoing project.
News Series
Black and White Vintage Darkroom Prints
(All are One Offs, edition of One)
Images # 32~ 39
On the East Wall are the black and white, hand printed and archivally toned and mounted prints (and are one off) and priced at $ 350.00 They are from a series of one.
Also on display in the gallery is a maquette from the color series. The actual paper pieces are for sale and are mounted on their own or within the confines of a steel bowl using magnets
Priced at 350.00 or 450.00 mounted in a steel bowl.
By appointment.
New York Harbor
Images # 42~51
For several years, I commuted to a college on Staten Island to teach film and darkroom aka ‘Photo One’. The reverse commute, going there in the morning and returning early evening, gave me ample time to explore the light in the harbor at different times of the day and year, the changing weather conditions and utilizing many different cameras over time. The HOLGA is a ‘one tick up from a toy’, priced then at around $25.00 (and a real film camera), and it seemed to evoke a mood, thinking about my family members who all arrived here from various places in Europe between the years of 1880 and 1910. One cold, rainy, winter morning, I wondered how the newly arriving emigres felt upon entering the harbor with this large imposing Statue of Liberty looking down. The harbor is vast, the city off in the distance, a bit like Oz, the currents in the river severe.
The effects were all made in camera, the blurring, focus, overlapping etc. No software was used on the image other than removing dust spots, and toning.
Prices
The digital prints are12.5 inches square, priced at $300.00 per.
Large Triptych 12.5 x 39" $450.00
Large Panoramic, "Oz" 12.5 x 24" $400.00
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