Just a reminder that our current sale of Paris pictures by Peter Turnley printed by Voja Mitrovic is about to end. We'll take orders up until 6 p.m. U.S. Central Time tonight (Friday). I think that's midnight Fri.-Sat. GST, if I'm reading the tables right. [UPDATE: Sale is now over.]
We really don't take late orders, so please don't assume we will—in fact, I'll be sending the orders to Paris right at six o'clock tonight so Voja can get to work bright and early on Saturday morning in the darkroom.
Voja's going to be working really hard for us these next couple of weeks, and I'd like to extend a special thanks to him, along with my admiration.
As a side note, I really want to thank everybody for all the nice comments. A special shout out to The Wright Language School in the Chugoku mountain range in western Japan, servicing Tsuyama, a rural city of about 110,000 people. Andrew Nichols writes, "This will be the fourth print from your offers I'm looking forward to displaying here at our language school. Gordon's, Charlie's, and Ken's works greet me and our students every day, relaxing and inspiring us, and the chance to hang one of Peter's photos printed by Voja will add to our mini-collection greatly."
Things like that are just nice to hear.
Mike
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I can't tell you how itchy I am to buy one of these prints (I especially like "News") but I just can't swing it right now. As much as I would love a Turnley, I look forward to Ctein's test print sale.
Posted by: Adam W | Friday, 06 April 2012 at 08:29 AM
Adam,
You'll be able to swing that, I promise you. At least if Ctein is able to come anywhere close to what he plans.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Johnston | Friday, 06 April 2012 at 08:37 AM
Thanks for the shout out, Mike! Made my day.
The photos we have bought through your sales really add to the school's ambience and catch the eye of many of our students, opening them to new topics in conversation in a language they are struggling to master. It's a daily reminder of the capacity of photography and art to connect and inspire.
Can't wait to see Peter's photo here, and share it with our students.
Posted by: Andrew Nichols | Friday, 06 April 2012 at 10:04 AM
Like Adam W I am not in a position to buy one of these prints, alas. Another time, perhaps.
Mike, I'm interested to know whether the selection of the pictures for this offer took account of the degree of difficulty of printing them. For a deal like this I imagine that Voja would prefer negatives that are straightforward to print -- ones that don't need epic feats of burning and dodging. Of course I admire Voja's skill in printing (I have recently seen a big exhibition of Henri Cartier-Bresson's work. And I have done enough work in the darkroom to appreciate the skill, but never counted myself a master printer) but I know that epic feats are incidental to the quality of master works.
So, are the chosen negatives ones that produce a lovely print with a single exposure?
Posted by: Peter Marquis-Kyle | Saturday, 07 April 2012 at 04:44 AM
Maybe next time you should include the portrait of Voja as a selection. Then he would have to print a bunch of photos of himself for hours at a time!
Posted by: Dave Karp | Saturday, 07 April 2012 at 07:40 PM