Busacca Gallery

Description:

Bear Brook is a stream in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. I made this image in 1974, but I feel it is one of my best. For example, the water moves down the stream in a graceful S curve, while going around numerous rocks and boulders. There is a wealth of subject matter to view and enjoy. Additionally, the detail and tonalities are perfect. It is classic in every respect. Originally photographed with a medium format twin lens reflex, the detail is exceptional. I have made only a about 5 exhibition prints from the negative. Now, I an creating a new edition of 35 prints plus 2 Artist Proofs on 11X19 paper and 10 larger prints plus 2 Artist Proofs on 17X22 paper. This image measures 12.5 inches high by 11 inches wide and is printed on Epson Exhibition Fiber paper. This paper produces a print which matches the original gelatin silver print in every way. It is printed on an Epson 3800Pro printer using archival pigment inks. It is signed, dated, titled, and numbered on the obverse in pencil. It is print number 2. It is supplied unmounted to allow the buyer to mat and frame to his specifications.

Reference:

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_art_photography

A photograph (often shortened to photo or pic (picture)) is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process of creating photographs is called photography. (Photo) "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light". The first permanent photograph was made in 1825 by a French inventor, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, building on a discovery by Johann Heinrich Schultz (1724): that a silver and chalk mixture darkens under exposure to light. Niépce and Louis Daguerre refined this process. Daguerre discovered that exposing the silver first to iodine vapor, before exposure to light, and then to mercury fumes after the photograph was taken, could form a latent image; bathing the plate in a salt bath then fixes the image. These ideas led to the famous daguerreotype. The daguerreotype had its problems, notably the fragility of the resulting picture, and that it was a positive-only process and thus could not be re-printed. Inventors set about looking for improved processes that would be more practical. Several processes were introduced and used for a short time between Niépce's first image and the introduction of the collodion process in 1848. Collodion-based wet-glass plate negatives with prints made on albumen paper remained the preferred photographic method for some time, even after the introduction of the even more practical gelatin process in 1871. Adaptations of the gelatin process have remained the primary black-and-white photographic process to this day, differing primarily in the film material itself, originally glass and then a variety of flexible films. Color photography is almost as old as black-and-white, with early experiments dating to John Herschel's experiments with Anthotype from 1842, and Lippmann plate from 1891. Color photography became much more popular with the introduction of Autochrome Lumière in 1903, which was replaced by Kodachrome, Ilfochrome and similar processes. For many years these processes were used almost exclusively for transparencies (in slide projectors and similar devices), but color prints became popular with the introduction of the Chromogenic negative, which is the most-used system in the C-41 process. The needs of the movie industry have also introduced a host of special-purpose systems, perhaps the most well known being the now-rare Technicolor.