Antietam - The Road to Roulette Farm - Limited Editions
It has been my fate to embark on the promotion of practical services with some energy and wind up always--whether with literary interests, musical ones, or photography--on the fine art side of the bench.
Even the journalism here, the punditry from my vaunted "second row seat to history", wants to lean back into books and book reviews (coming soon), beholden to none (no-strings contributions only accepted via Paypal for this blog).
The road to Roulette Farm was in the other direction the one leading to Antietam Battlefield's "Bloody Lane", a culvert, more or less, so laden with the dead and dying on September 17, 1862 that one could fairly walk on bodies for a fair part of its length. As for the Roulette Farm, some 700 soldiers have found buriel beneath its grounds.
This project is for me an elegy.
I've set out to produce just six to 12 photographs from Antietam, and to print editions of close to those same numbers.
For first editions from my desktop using dye inks laid into Ilford Galerie paper, which results should last decades under glass or in plastic sleaves, the sheets will be 8.5 x 11 with actual image dimensions of 6-5/8 x 10" unless otherwise specified.
Washington's finest digital printing boutique, United Photo of Beltsville, Maryland will be tasked to produce a second edition short stack of nominal 16x20 Chromira prints on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, estimated life span of 85 years, and custom matted to a 20x24 frame size.
Correspondence: James S. Oppenheim
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