Friday, December 19, 2008

Ashes and Snow


It is funny how you have to hear about something more than once for it to stick.  

Several months ago, CBS Sunday Morning (One of my all time favorites!)  featured Gregory Colbert's Nomadic Museum in New York.  It was amazing.  He had a temporary museum built form shipping containers on a pier.  It was filled with large format prints of his haunting images featuring children with wild animals.  The images had an unreal quality.  They seemed not possible.

Last week, I visited the amazing studio of Zack Arias, music photographer extraordinarie.  He had a display of his favorite photography books (I'm totally copying this for the studio remodel).  One of them was a book filled with Colbert's work.  It was a book covered in hand made Nepalese paper tied with a string, and the images were printed on fine art paper in Italy.  It was one of the most beautiful books I'd ever seen. 

So, the very next day I started searching for a copy of the book.  Apparently, Zack's version is no longer in print, but I was able to find another version.  It arrived today.  WOW!

Hopefully, I will be able to create a version to use for portrait sessions and weddings.  Stay tuned.

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