Bags, by Beth Dow

This week's photo edition, Bags, is our first black and white piece, by our second Minneapolis-based photographer, Beth Dow. In related news, Beth's first NYC solo exhibition, Fieldwork, will open at Jen Bekman Gallery on Friday November 2, 2007.

Our 20x200 editions are produced with archival pigment inks on cotton rag paper. We've made 3 editions of this piece:

200 of the smaller prints (8.5"x11"") are available for $20 each.
20 of the medium prints (17"x22") are available for $200 each.
2 of the large prints (30"x40") are available for $2000 each.

I've exhibited lots of artists from the fine state of Minnesota, but I first discovered Beth's work via the photography blog Mrs. Deane, which comes to us from Holland.

Mrs. Deane and I share an interest in how B+W photography fits into our digital world. We're most certainly not alone - curator Charlotte Cotton created quite a stir earlier this year when she published an essay online entitled The New Color: The Return of Black and White.

This 20x200 edition is based on a gorgeous platinum print that will be included in the Fieldwork exhibition. Being able to offer such a fine reproduction of a platinum print is what 20x200 is all about.

The prints we'll be exhibiting at the gallery are amazing objects: labor intensive, created by a highly specialized and increasingly rare process, produced in small numbers. The prints we're offering here still capture the subtlety and light of these images, allowing a much broader audience to live with their beauty.

As with the prints in the show, Bags is even better in person. Eye-catching as it is, the .jpg here doesn't show you the delicacy of the image, nor does it express the range of tones you see in the print itself. I can't really describe it either, so you'll just have to see for yourself when your print arrives in the mail.