Print Offer Delayed

As mentioned on Saturday, the overnight delivery of the proofs failed this past weekend, so the quick three-day Print Offer of "The Red Chair" that some people were asking for will be delayed by a day or two. I'll add any future interim news to this post as Updates, until the announcement, which will be a new post. Thanks for your interest! And your patience.

(I've had friends and relatives contacting me saying they want one...first time that's happened.)

[UPDATE: Sale will start on Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET, for three days, till Saturday 1 p.m. ET.]

We've done this at least twice before...offered a quick print sale of a picture that was published on TOP in some other context. One was Gordon Lewis's "Precipitation," a picture he took when testing a Pentax K-7 for a review of his published here. That picture sold modestly, if well enough, but it's become quite famous since then, going on to be published in several venues, including the book Why Photographs Work: 52 Great Images, Who Made Them, What Makes Them Special and Why by George Barr. And of all our print sales, ever, I think it's the one the people ask for the most, and most often express regret about missing. I have my print of "Precipitation" hanging in the downstairs half bath (my mother always called those "powder rooms," presumably because that's where ladies once went to powder their noses? I don't know about these things). On a recent visit, a poet/editor/artist friend of mine confessed he kept returning to the downstairs bathroom, not to powder his nose, but to gaze at Gordon's print, which mesmerized him. I have hopes of someday convincing Gordon to offer another run of that one. It's an enigmatic picture, unconventional but strangely perfect, and it has held up very well—the print is still just as good to look at today as it was when I first saw it.

Another was a limited offer of 50 prints of the dramatic "Summer Storm, Chicago," by Ken Tanaka, which I believe Ken actually first posted here as part of a comment. That offering sold out in six hours and two minutes, so I whined and wheedled and pleaded, and Ken, probably to shut me up, kindly agreed to make another 50 prints, plus ten larger ones. Those all sold out quickly, too.

Mike

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Gato: "I remembered 'Precipitation' once I looked it up—had not remembered the title. Though I remember the photo I seem to have missed the print sale. If there is ever another run you can count me in."

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[Gato]

I remember "Precipitation" once I looked it up - had not remembered the title. Though I remember the photo I seem to have missed the print sale. If there is ever another run you can count me in.

[Jim Woodard]

I may be among the very few that enjoy smaller prints. I am keeping my fingers crossed that your decision for this print size is for a smaller image! But i do believe that is the artists decision.

[Roger]

I, too, would be happy to get another chance at Precipitation. Are you listening, Gordon?

[Daniel Stevenson]

Missed the others but am certainly enamored with the Red Chair. Hope it works out and makes it to a print sale soon.

[dd-b]

I couldn't have told you the title of that picture was "Precipitation" -- but when you said there had been a print sale of a quirky photo of that title, I knew immediately which one you meant. When I looked it up it wasn't a surprise (though if you'd questioned me on many details, I would have given incorrect answers from memory).

So -- yeah, that one's holding up for me, too. Too bad I don't have a print.