Wednesday Edition: Charlie Crane

As promised, I've come home to roost!

It was quite something to watch those Birds of the Pacific Northwest fly out the door. And then something else to receive and read forlorn emails from collectors who missed out on both the small and medium editions. What can I say? The early bird gets the worm! (The largest prints in the edition are still available, for now, and they're totally gorgeous.)

But enough with the birds! Today we're bringing things back down to earth, on an entirely different continent, with Panda, by widely-lauded British photographer Charlie Crane.

Panda is available exclusively through 20x200, and has been editioned in three sizes. All the prints are created using archival pigment inks on 100% cotton rag paper with a luster finish.

Let's face it, pandas are awesome. (Raul just shook his head and laughed at me when I said that out loud.) I have been bouncing on my toes with excitement for weeks now at the prospect of releasing the Dirty Panda edition, as we've been referring to it in house. It's got a certain high/low appeal that I am naturally drawn to.

High because Charlie's a fancy fella. His book, Welcome to Pyongyang was a top pick on many of the photography world cognoscenti's favorite photo book lists for 2007, and for good reason. It's a gorgeous book, put out by Chris Boot, publishers of many of photography's finest tomes.

It's low because... it's dirty this is not your typical panda photo, rather it's what I think of as panda verité. The fact is, that in spite of their mass appeal, as Charlie rightly points out pandas, are lazy slothful creatures.

I myself have spent much of my life in the throes of panda mania. When I was a kid, it was pandas or koalas. Sure some of the nature books told me that Koalas wouldn't hesitate to rip me to shreds in spite of their cute luggage-textured noses and fluffy ears. In spite of that, I was certain that I'd make fast friends with any koala or panda I happened to meet. (An assumption I never had occasion to challenge.)

Slothful or not, Charlie's panda is still awfully cute as he lounges about in the Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan, China. It's an image that indulges two rather opposite sides of my nature: the giggly kid who likes cute stuff (she's in there, honest) and then the cynic who likes seeing things as they are, and really appreciates Charlie's dry British humor in photographic form.

So yes, high and low. Cute and dirty. Mass and niche. It's all here in this photo, you just have to look for it.

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