Introduced in 1946, dye
transfer is the finest color printing process in the history of photography.
It is an extremely labor intensive, complex and expensive
archival process. I worked to master the process over a four-year period
before Kodak discontinued it in the early 1990s.
A limited selection of
hand-made dye transfer prints, 15 x 22.5 of Alabama nature
are
available at Lyda Rose Gallery in Homewood or by contacting me directly.
I like to think these prints, being the only dye transfer prints of Alabama
ever to be made, will some day be of historical significance in American
or at least Alabama photography - probably long after I'm dead. They are considered
archival and museum quality, however they do fade with time when exposed
to light. They keep in dark storage without fading.
Dry mounted (on fiber board), matted and framed dye transfers like you
see pictured here are $700 each. Mounted without mat or frame, $475. Unmounted
print, $400.
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