A Photographic Arbor Day

 

The last Friday of April is set aside annually in celebration of National Arbor Day, a holiday which encourages the planting and caring for of trees and other foliage.  According to our good friend, Wikipedia, it originated in Nebraska during the early 1870's and has since spread to a global level.

What better way to celebrate the greenest of holidays with a vertically integrated product: trees make paper, photographs are printed on paper, photographs on paper look FABULOUS on your walls!  See the logic there?

So in honor of the 140th Arbor Day here is a small forests' worth of the photography world's best trees!

Mitch Dobrowner: Wind Swept Tree

 

 

Maggie Taylor: Oh, Happy Day!

 

Jerry Uelsmann: Untitled, 1969

 

 

Josef Hoflehner: Elephant Hill Pathway

 

Jeffrey Conley: Snow Covered Branches

 

Takeshi Shikama: Central Park #21

 

Jeri Eisenberg: Magnolia, No. 9

 

 

Susan Burnstine: Forever

 

Brett Weston: Holland Canal

Niniane Kelley: Palm

 

 

Charles Grogg: Bonsai (Juniper)

 

 

Jefferson Hayman: Tree, Central Park

 

 

Keliy Anderson-Staley: Plum Tree

 

David Fokos: Haybales, Ripsa, Sweden

 

Henry Gilpin: Trees, Reflection

Dan Burkholder: Tree in April Snow, Catskills

 

Pine-ing for any of these images?  Don't have a collection and looking for one to take root?  Already have one but looking to branch out?  Want me to stop with these ridiculous tree jokes? Don't be such a crabapple! Come into the John Cleary Gallery or give us a call and we'd love to help find that perfect photograph for you.

It’s More than Just Black and White

 

For a continuation of our ongoing series regarding the different types of photography I thought today we’d take a look at three more well-known processes.

Gelatin Silver Print: As the dominant photographic mode from its inception in the 1880’s through the middle part of the 19th century, the silver gelatin print remains a mainstay in the black and white photography world.  The image is printed on paper coated with an emulsion of gelatin and silver salts.  Variations of types of paper and silver salt can effect the end product.

• Silver chloride- used for contact printing, produces a generally neutral black
• Silver bromide- used for enlargements, produces a bluish black or cool tone
• Chloro-bromide- may be used for either, produces a warm, brownish black tone

Stanko Abadzic: A Day When Everything Goes Wrong, 2000/2008 (gelatin silver print)

 

Platinum and palladium print: Unlike the gelatin silver print, this process uses no emulsion and lies on the paper surface itself.  This results in a matte surface with a deposit of platinum/palladium absorbed slightly onto the paper and produces delicate rich tones and a range of grays that are unachievable in silver prints.  Palladium was introduced as a replacement for platinum paper during the advent of World War I when the price of platinum became too expensive.

Tom Hawkins: Salt Harvest #5: Bonaire, 1999 (platinum print)

 

Sepia and Selenium toned gelatin silver print: Toning is a common process used to change the color of black and white photographs using a chemical process carried out on silver-based prints by replacing the metallic silver in the emulsion with a silver compound. Toning can increase the range of visible shades in a print without reducing the contrast and can improve the chemical stability of the print, increasing its potential longevity. Sepia prints use silver sulfide resulting in a warmer tone, whereas selenium prints use silver selenide to produce a red-brown or purple-brown tone, depending on the strength of the solution.  

Josef Hoflehner: Water Walk, 2007 (selenium toned gelatin silver print)

 

Joseph

Deck the Walls

Deck the Walls is an annual group exhibition of vintage and contemporary pieces that allows John Cleary Gallery to showcase a variety of artists, prices ranges, styles, and photographic mediums.  Deck the Walls will feature gallery favorites such as Elliott Erwitt, Maggie Taylor, Jeffrey Becom, Mitch Dobrowner, Takeshi Shikama, along with several others.  There will be something here for everyone’s budget and taste.

Changing Shows, Passings, and Artists

Saturday, October 17 is the last day to see the amazing Introducing: Josef Hoflehner show. If you're not able to see the pieces in person, be sure to check out the website.

October has seen the passing of photography great Irving Penn), and Warhol Factory staple Nat Finkelstein. In happier news, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Boyle and Smith who created the first charged-couple device (CCD) which paved the way for digital camera technology.

Two of our artists have recently been in the news. Chip Forelli's photographs have been chosen by Mac as desktop image choices for their Snow Leopord OS X and Susan Burnstine's work is featured in a 7 page spread in the fall issue of Artworks Magazine. Congratulations, Chip and Susan!


Our next opening will be Saturday, October 24, from 6-8 p.m. The exhibition is entitled Mark Jaremko: Nightscapes, and the artist will be in attendance. You can see Jaremko's work here, and we hope to see you next Saturday!