111 Views
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Fine Art Paper
12 x 9 in ($50)
White ($80)
111 Views
5
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I started traveling to Iran in 2007 and was lucky enough to live for over a year in the country before the political turmoil of the green uprising stopped my documentary film and photographic work in the spring of 2009. One of my favorite photographs that I took while living in Tehran is this image of two Iranian men talking at a juice stand in south Tehran. Night was just coming on, and because the light is balanced for the green fluorescents inside the shop the light on the street is turned deep purplish blue - a wonderful color. Mostly it's the color and the atmosphere of evening light that I like about this somehow beautiful but otherwise prosaic scene. Also, the normality of life in Iran was something that I wanted to stress in my photography work there. We in the west tend to have a very distorted and unrealistic idea of what Iran is like, and by recording the real Iran that I experienced, I hope to dispel some of those misconceptions. A limited edition of five prints only at this size. (Open edition prints of this image sold on SaatchiArt have a small lightly printed title and attribution below the image area.) The signed print is 34 x 24 inches, which includes a 2-inch white border. The printed image area is 30 x 20 inches This is a loose print, unframed and unmounted. This limited edition print is rendered on museum quality Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, printed by a fine art printer using archival inks in the United States. About the paper: This is a 300 gsm paper, meaning it is 300 grams per square meter, and feels heavy and substantial to the touch. I am making photographs as one might make paintings - in the sense that these are not action shots, mainly, but contemplations. I like the matte texture of this paper for the way it creates a painterly richness and lack of glare from the surface. In the hands of my printer the black tones of the Hahnemühle paper are deep, substantial, and pleasurable to the eye. Hahnemühle papers are designed for archival storage and are acid-free, which makes them highly resistant to ageing. The paper is also lignin-free, which means it should consist of linters or alpha-cellulose. Lignin-free paper does not yellow.
2007
Giclee on Fine Art Paper
12 W x 9 H x 0.1 D in
17.25 W x 14.25 H x 1.2 D in
White
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From a multiple Oscar-nominated and Sundance award-winning filmmaker who combines fine art sensibility with a passion for communicating the worlds of civilians caught up in conflict, Longley’s film and photography work witnesses places such as Gaza, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Through an approach best described as Slow Journalism, Longley creates a big picture view from an intimate perspective. Describing Longley's work in the Los Angeles Times in 2019, film critic Kenneth Turan wrote: "What is life like on the ground for ordinary people in another culture, another world? That’s been the bread and butter of observational documentaries for forever, but almost never is it done with the kind of beauty and grace filmmaker James Longley brings to his Afghanistan-set “Angels Are Made of Light.” As his 2006 Oscar-nominated “Iraq in Fragments” demonstrated, MacArthur Fellow Longley, who serves as his own cinematographer as well as directs, has an almost magical ability to envelope us in other realities. He does it via the poetry of his imagery as well as a gift for focused illumination that creates empathetic portraits of people who are both ordinary and intensely involving." ... In 2009 James was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2011 a USArtists Ford Fellow. These substantial awards helped to create his most recent filmed and photographic work. James has taught master classes at Hong Kong University, Duke University's Center For The Arts, The Goethe Institute in Kigali, and in Zurich for FOCAL. Longley has been nominated for two Academy Awards and won three Jury Awards at Sundance - for Directing, Cinematography, and Editing - among many other heartwarming accolades. 35mm prints of Longley's filmed work can be found in the archives MoMA, The Academy Film Archive, the Duke University Archive, Wesleyan University, The Northwest Film Forum and the Library of Congress. A portion of James' income from the sale of these images goes to support the people he has filmed and worked with the past - particularly in Afghanistan. Please visit James' portfolio site at for more photography and films, and to contact him for custom printing or to commission work.
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