“When I Break Free…” is a seven-color, 20″x30″ print on Magnani Revere printmaking paper limited to 24 signed and numbered prints.
Check out this print and others at his site. He's got an interesting bio as well, having spent parts of his life in Germany, Cambodia and Oklahoma.
He also had this quote, which we think interesting:
"I'm an optimist, but for whatever reason my work always feels somber. Maybe it's because beauty found in spite of sadness is the most precious kind. "
© Bruce Waldman
Printmaker, Bruce Waldman, is one of the most celebrated illustrators and printmakers of our time. He was recently commissioned to create posters of the Obama and Romney Presidential campaigns and chose Revere for the limited edition prints.
"The assignment to do the portraits of Romney and Obama was given to me by Stephen Fredericks, the President and Founder of the New York Society of Etchers, in conjunction with the Sacred Gallery on Broadway in soho for "The Art of Democracy" exhibition that is put on every four years in conjunction with the presidential election."
Waldman intends for the show to travel to other cities in the US. Four years ago the prints travelled to Chicago, California, along with other locations.
The show is on display right now at The Sacred Gallery on broadway in soho. The designer for the posters was Lou Netter.
Waldman's prints are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The New York Historical Society, The Bronx Zoological Museum, The Royal Collection, London,The Library of Congress, Washington DC, The Housatonic Museum of Art in Connecticut, and The New York Transit Museum.
Via our friends at DC Editions, we found a great video about Platinum Prints and how they're made.
The video was produced by the George Eastman House:
Check out our recommended papers for this process.
And here is DC Editions on platinum printing:
Some of the finest photographers in the world including Irving Penn, Kenro Izu, Paul Strand, Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz turned to platinum printing for its ability to show a great range of subtle tonal variations. Of all that has been written about the platinum print, gallery owner John Stevenson’s writings in the inaugural volume of 21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography, best sums up the experience of viewing a finely crafted platinum print :
The latest publication from our friends at Foolscap Press is an edition of 100 of Cervantes' Dialogue of the Dogs. Printed letterpress on Magnani Revere paper and hand-bound at the Press. There are full page scenes set in a three-dimensional diorama in the front and back covers creating a box like structure around the text.
