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This
is a gum bichromate print made during March 1979 in Bozeman, Montana. Kodalith
was exposed in a 5x7 pinhole camera and developed in Dektol. This camera original
negative was used to apply four seperate pigment layers to a sheet of Rives
BFK watercolor paper that was hand sized in alternate baths of formaldahyde
and gelatin. A fifth black pigment shadow layer was exposed from a Kodalith
negative. The camera negative, Kodalith positve and Kodalith negative used to
create this print were destroyed after completion.
It is signed, dated and marked AP
in pencil below the bottom of the image.
The scanned image above is actual
size and pretty close to the origanal's color and contrast. The detail and subtle
tonal gradation are not accuratly represented here.
For most of the past 22 years the
print has been stored in a cool, dry, dark place.It has only been displayed
for a short while in in my home.
I thought $10,000 would be a super
big enough price to keep anyone from buying my most precious image but after
recently visiting the Andrew
Smith Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and seeing duplicatable silver
gelatin prints for sale at five digit figures, I got scared and upped
the price to $60,000.
Please feel free to enjoy this picture.
Copy it to disk or even print it if you like. But when you decide you want the
actual object - a handmade, one of a kind fine art print - please email
me your phone number and I will call you.
For the stated price I will mount,
mat and frame the print to your specifications and hand deliver it to you anywhere
in the world.