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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.


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