Early European Paintings
Just got back from two days in NYC photographing beautiful early European paintings. Images will be for exhibit catalogue and promotion next year at Yale Univ. Art Gallery.
Early European paintings
Thanks to the collector for letting me into their home and especially John for handling all the art and Linsey from the Art Gallery.
Flat Work on Location
This is an ad hoc setup photographing prints in a Brooklyn print dealer’s space. A little down and dirty (keeping true to my subtitle up there: “How the Sausage Get’s Made”), but effective. With the aim of making good images, getting the job done on location, and keeping a reasonable budget this works. Hold your tongue, I’ve photographed thousand+ year old Chinese hand scrolls with a similar variant. That time it was strobe (keep ‘em cool) and a 4×5 film camera.
Type of prints photographed:
Tea Culture of Japan
Check out the exhibit and the book. I have a bunch of images in the book. Look back to my post here called “Tea Ceremony” about a year ago (Mar 2008).
Tea Culture of Japan (press release)
The book.
Thomas Roberts painting
Photographing a painting by the Irish painter Thomas Roberts at private residence in Greenwich, CT for National Gallery of Ireland. Image is for planned publication by Churchill House Press (www.churchillhousepress.com) in association with Thomas Roberts focused exhibit in Ireland.
Well actually the make the full painting image the camera was, of course, right up to the chandelier. Luckily not higher, but squeezing my head in to view was comical.
A very dark painting, though I captured plenty of detail. It took me about 5 minutes before I found the signature for a detail even if it was half covered by the frame.
Thanks to the collector/homeowner, Brendan Rooney at the National Gallery of Ireland, and William Laffan at Churchill House Press in London.
Filament Sculpture
This a fun sculpture I photographed for a NH artist Irene K. Miller. It is knitted from mono filament in sections and stitched together. Interesting, a little tricky. Benefited from the back lighting, kind of like a hair light for those people types.
Small Studio : Sizable Painting
On location great images can still be made in tight spaces. Painter: Christopher Mir, represented by RARE
Painting: Christopher Mir
Larry Rivers Paintings
Big Paintings!
Officially the largest paintings I’ve photographed on location. This project was to photograph 3 Larry Rivers’ paintings pulled out of storage, temporarily unrolled and stretched for conservation. The largest of the group was 10ft. high by 15ft. long.
Photography was done on location in the closed Trumbull gallery at the Yale University Art Gallery. We had just enough room for the lights. Strobe lighting allowed me to circumvent the skylights overhead. The second image here shows the back of my camera with an image stitching attachment. Each painting was photographed in three incrementally shifted frames stitched together in post production.
Larry Rivers painting - shoot setup
Stitching camera back = big files
Helpful Art Handlers
Thank you to the helpful art handlers on hand and museum collections staff.
Tea Ceremony
Photographing beautiful tea ceremony objects at collector residence for Yale University Art Gallery.
We squeezed in a full studio table top setup in a side dining room. Project was 2 days of photography in Manhattan, NY residence. Many thanks to curator Sadako Ohki and accommodating home owners. Images will be used for upcoming 2009 exhibit.
Tea Ceremony location shoot setup