A SELECTION OF FINE PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS FROM
DAN BURKHOLDER: Photographic Gems
February 26 – March 28, 2015
One definition of gem is “something prized for its beauty, excellence and value, especially if small and perfect of its kind.” Dan Burkholder’s elegant prints are just that. His prints may be small in size, but they make big impressions and are meant to be enjoyed equally in the hand or on the wall.
NEW! – Pigmented Ink on Varnished Vellum over Gesso Prints
Dan Burkholder has a decades-long reputation for exploring new, beautiful and sensuous ways to express the photographic print. With his Archival Pigmented Ink on Varnished Vellum over Gesso prints, Dan has created a new type of fine print. He has chosen a delicate, translucent, 100% cotton vellum that he varnishes to produce an even more transparent substrate, and further applies a white gesso coating behind the image area to enhance the image’s luminosity. Come see these exciting new prints!
"Rowboat on Lake, Central Park" ©Dan Burkholder
#2/9, 5" x 5" Pigmented Ink on Vellum over Gesso Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $800, Framed $910
"Two Trees at foot of Catskills, Palenville" ©Dan Burkholder
#2/9, 5" x 5" Pigmented Ink on Vellum over Gesso Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $800, Framed $910
"Barn and Field, Connecticut" ©Dan Burkholder
#1/9, 5" x 5" Pigmented Ink on Vellum over Gesso Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $800, Framed $910
"Houses by the Sea, Aran Islands" ©Dan Burkholder
#1/9, 5" x 5" Pigmented Ink on Vellum over Gesso Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $800, Framed $910
Platinum/Palladium on Vellum over 24k Gold Leaf Prints...
"Mexican Cowboy in Village Shop, Sonora" ©Dan Burkholder
#1/9, 3.5" x 3.5" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $1,200, Framed $1,310
"Stand of Trees, Texas" ©Dan Burkholder A CLASSIC PRINT!
#12/15, 4" x 6" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $3,000, Framed $3,110
"Three Trees Near Water, New York" ©Dan Burkholder
#13/15, 4" x 6" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $2,000, Framed $2,110
"Tree in April Snow, Catskills" ©Dan Burkholder
#2/9, 5" x 5" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf Print, 16" x 20" matted size,
Matted $1,200, Framed $1,310
"Path at Sunrise, Great Trinity Forest" ©Dan Burkholder
#1/9, 10" x 10" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf Print, 22" x 28" matted size
Matted $2,600, framed $2,740
"Trees and Truck at Midnight" ©Dan Burkholder
#7/15, 8.5" x 12.75" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf Print, 22" x 28" matted size
Matted $2,600, Framed $2,740
"Flatiron in Spring, New York" ©Dan Burkholder
#3/15, 8.5" x 12.75" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf & Platinum Leaf Print
16" x 20" matted size
Matted $2,600, Framed $2,740
Also in stock in 4" x 6" print size, 16" x 20" matted size, #13/15
Matted $2,000, Framed $2,110 NOTE- #14 print will be $4,000. Ask to view!
"George Washington Bridge in Rain" ©Dan Burkholder
#A/P, 3.5" x 3.5" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf & Platinum Leaf Print,
16" x 20" matted size, Matted $1,200, Framed $1,310
"Tappan Zee Bridge II" ©Dan Burkholder
#A/P, 3.5" x 3.5" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf & Platinum Leaf Print,
16" x 20" matted size, Matted $1,200, Framed $1,310
"Newburgh-Beacon Bridge over Hudson River, New York" ©Dan Burkholder
#A/P, 3.5" x 3.5" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf & Platinum Leaf Print,
16" x 20" matted size, Matted $1,200, Framed $1,310
"Pond and Chairs, Tannersville, New York" ©Dan Burkholder
#3/15, 3" x 9" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf & Platinum Leaf Print,
16" x 20" matted size, Matted $1,200, Framed $1,310
"Rowboat in Grasses, Cape Cod" ©Dan Burkholder
#3/9, 4.5" x 5.5" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $1,200, framed $1,310
"Canoe in Woods, Maine" ©Dan Burkholder
#4/15, 4" x 6" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $1,200, Framed $1,310
"Enchanted Lagoon, Mexico" ©Dan Burkholder
#24, 6" x 9" Platinum/Palladium Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $900, Framed $1,010
"Pilgrim and Boat, India" ©Dan Burkholder
#22, 6" x 9" Platinum/Palladium Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $900, Framed $1,010
"Mountains and Clouds, Nepal" ©Dan Burkholder
#12, 6" x 9" Platinum/Palladium Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $900, Framed $1,010
Prints from "The Color of Loss" by Dan Burkholder:
"Wagon & Window, New Orleans" ©Dan Burkholder
#12/20, 12" x 18" Pigment Ink Print, 22" x 28" matted size
Matted $1,400, Framed $1,540
NOTE - Price increasing soon on this print.
"Helmet and Lockers, New Orleans" ©Dan Burkholder
#5/20, 12" x 18" Pigment Ink Print, 22" x 28" matted size
Matted $800, Framed $940
NOTE - Price increasing soon on this print.
"Weight Room, New Orleans" ©Dan Burkholder
#2/20, 12" x 18" Pigment Ink Print, 22" x 28" matted size
Matted $800, Framed $940
NOTE - Price increasing soon on this print.
WE HAVE SIGNED COPIES OF
"THE COLOR OF LOSS: AN
PORTRAIT OF NEW ORLEANS
AFTER KATRINA"
By Dan Burkholder
$50.00
We have additional prints from Dan's New Orleans series in stock.
We invite you to come view them.
ADDITIONAL PRINTS BY DAN BURKHOLDER...
(In stock but not on display – Ask to view.)
"Trees and Grass, Yosemite" ©Dan Burkholder
#44, 12" x 18" Platinum/Palladium Print, Matted $4,000, Framed $4,140
Printed in 1994
"Yosemite and Merced River" ©Dan Burkholder
#23, 5" x 7" Platinum/Palladium Print, Matted $2,500, Framed $2,610
Printed in 1992
"Curved Canal and Boats, Venice" ©Dan Burkholder
#1/9, 4.5" x 6" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $1,200, framed $1,310
"Venice from Accademia Bridge" ©Dan Burkholder
#2/9, 9.5" x 15.5" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf Print, 22" x 28" matted size
Matted $2,600, framed $2,740
"Pumpkins on Church Steps" ©Dan Burkholder
#2/15, 4" x 6" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $1,200, Framed $1,310
"Crossing the Mid-Hudson Bridge" ©Dan Burkholder
#2/9, 5" x 5" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $1,200, Framed $1,310
"Chrysler Building from Bryant Park, New York" ©Dan Burkholder
#A/P, 4" x 6" Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $1,200, Framed $1,310
"Venice from Bridge near Train Station" ©Dan Burkholder
#2/9, 8.5" x 20" Pigmented Ink Print, 22" x 28" matted size
Matted $1,200, Framed $1,340
"Suspended Canoes, Interlochen, Michigan" ©Dan Burkholder
#2/9, 9" x 17" Pigmented Ink Print, 22" x 28" matted size
Matted $1,200, Framed $1,340
"Tree and Tractors with Distant Catskills" ©Dan Burkholder
#2/20, 7.5" x 15" Pigmented Ink Print, 22" x 28" matted size
Matted $1,200, Framed $1,340
"Dock and Trees Behind Inn, Catskills" ©Dan Burkholder
#2/9, 6" x 6" Pigment Ink Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $800, Framed $910
"Skeleton over Courtyard, Oaxaca" ©Dan Burkholder
#5/50, 9" x 13.5" Pigmented Ink Print, 22" x 28" matted size
Matted $900, Framed $1,040
"Wetlands and Distant Catskills" ©Dan Burkholder
#8/20, 5.5"" x 8.5" Pigment Ink Print, 16" x 20" matted size
Matted $1,400, Framed $1,510
Platinum/Palladium on Vellum
over Gold Leaf
The process explained, by Dan Burkholder
Late in 2007 I was feeling antsy after a long binge of inkjet printing. I’d just finished a color project that was presented strictly as larger inkjet prints. The project was rewarding and the prints looked great but a change-of-gears was definitely in order. Hankering to get back into the darkroom, I also felt a nagging desire to take the handmade print in a different direction. For one, I wanted to counter photography’s current trend toward “gigantism.” The solution: make miniature prints, on the order of 4” x 6” and 9” x 13”. Secondly, I really wanted to make prints totally different from those printed on inkjet printers, or for that matter, anything on the market today; something more along the line of hand-made prints from the late 1800’s, but with a modern twist.
With a quarter century of platinum/palladium printing under my belt, I began to explore ways to combine yet another precious metal—gold, as it turns out—with the hand-coated platinum/palladium print. Gold has a proud history in photography, having been used in toners and even as dust suspended in banana oil (behind glass positives) by Edward Curtis. Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, I started an exploration that culminated in a body of Platinum/Palladium over Gold Leaf on Vellum prints, many of which will be shown in the “Photographic Gold” exhibition at Sun to Moon Gallery.
The Process
Starting with thin, acid-free vellum, I coat and expose the print pretty much like any other platinum/palladium print. Though I prefer glass rod coating for thicker papers, because the vellum puckers when it gets wet, a brush is a better choice for evenly spreading the liquid pt/pd sensitizer onto the vellum.
After the print is developed, cleared, washed, dried and flattened, the 24K gold leaf is applied to the back using an archival size. In the world of gilding, “size” refers to the adhesive that bonds the thin metal leaf to the substrate. Of course, since the viewing light passes through the vellum and the size on its way to reflect off the gold leaf, the size should be transparent as well as archival.
Now that you know that gold is on the back of the paper you’ll have a better understanding of some of the particulars of preparing the negative. Because the gold leaf forms the brightest highlights in the image, the negative’s contrast must be modified to provide rich shadows and glowing metallic highlights. Since I’ve been making digital negatives for 17 years, crafting a special gold curve in Photoshop was about as difficult as dropping a polarizing filter into the Grand Canyon. If you fail to make this contrast alteration in the digital negative, your print may have a dullness that compromises the glow of the gold leaf.
Taking the Precious Metal Theme
a Step Further
Figure 1 shows a platinum/palladium print about to be sized and gilded. Sharp readers will notice a sheet of 24K gold leaf in the upper right of the photo and a sheet of palladium leaf in the lower left. In a few select images, I’m using these two precious metals to give a split-tone look (bi-metal actually) to the finished print. The warm palladium coupled with the glowing gold gives a stunning, one-of-a-kind look to the final print.
FIGURE 1, Print about to be Gilded with both Gold and Palladium Leaf
Figure 2 shows the “Flatiron in Spring, New York” image in its final, two-metal form. The palladium leaf is behind the Flatiron building, giving it a softer warmth; the rest of the image is backed with 24K gold leaf.
FIGURE 2, Final Platinum/Palladium Print Gilded with Gold and Platinum
Combining the Old with the New
Photography’s seemingly unlimited options have been a major tickle for practitioners since the medium took root 185 years ago. Discovering new ways to combine historic processes—like platinum/palladium—with yet another precious metal—gold leaf—has been nothing short of thrilling for me. And to have such precise tonal control via a digital negative has sweetened the process even more. But in the end it’s the print that matters, and a platinum/palladium over gold leaf print literally shines with a elegance and beauty that is unique in the world of works on paper.
For more information about purchasing these and
other fine prints by Dan Burkholder, contact...
Sun to Moon Gallery
1515 Levee Street
Dallas, TX 75207
Phone 214.745.1199