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For a Beautiful Home Art to Collect Photography Gallery
Traditionally
Art has always been painting, watercolor, oil, or sculpture.
But in the last thirty to forty years photography has come into its own
and that is really today where a lot of art collecting is going so we thought what a great
idea if we could bring
photography to pottery barn so that people could start a collection
of their own.
When I'm working with pottery barn
we suggest to each other themes that we might consider and one of them recently was African
animals
and right now we're showing work by Elizabeth Henry and Gerald Hoberman,
both who are two excellent photographers and have taken pictures of these kinds of scenes.
One of my favorite photographers is Imogen Cunningham and her work is absolutely gorgeous.
They are images of flowers. It's part of what she's really so famous for and so it was a thrill
to be able to bring that to the collection.
I really like black and white I think it's timeless
and I think it does go with anything
and everything in the home and it's the kind of picture that you can build in a group
you can put three or four
black and white pictures together they may not be the same themes and certainly not by
the same photographer
and yet they can go together. With color photography it brings out certain colors so it
may add to the overall decoration that you have in your house
most of these photographs were taken with real film and
originally developed in the dark room and now
they're being digitally reproduced in a special size.
These prints that we have will
definitely last as long as a photograph done in a dark room.
The process here is a
giclee process. It's a digital reproduction and we really feel this process
brings out
the most color or black and white contrast
for all of the images we've selected.
Each of the prints in the Art to Collect program
are either signed and numbered by a living artist, seen by the artist improving this
print, or they are stamped by the estate of a deceased artist. There's only
two hundred fifty in each edition and each one is done individually.
My husband and I have been collectors for twenty years maybe even thirty years and it's really
enriched our lives and I'm hoping
this collection will bring
joy to your life too.
Pottery Barn