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We are please to invite everyone to the opening of Meg Birnbaum’s exhibit at our gallery on Friday, May 22, 6 – 8 PM. The Griffin Museum @ Digital Silver Imaging Gallery is located at 11 Brighton St in Belmont, MA.

DSI, in conjunction with the Griffin Museum, opens its new gallery space with Meg’s work from 14 regional fairs in New England, ranging from small 4H events to huge expositions.

Photographing the fairs using basic, plastic cameras and black and white film Meg says “I purposely wanted to lose sharp detail and instead capture a fleeting moment, a broad stroke, the distillation of the experience in the hope of capturing iconic imagery.”

Many of the fairs visited were more than 100 years old, yet she began to wonder about the future of farm animals and farm life. “The future of these summer fairs may rely on a shift away from agriculture to entertainment…mostly food, specifically fried food,” she says. “Fried Oreos, fried cheesecake. `We’ll fry anything’ one sign read.’’

For the second year DSI & Ava Art are proud to sponsor the Boston Photographic Resource Center’s annual portfolio review. We will be exhibiting work and have information about our silver gelatin prints. Visit us before or after your review!

  
         
Digital Silver Imaging sponsored Larry Fink at the CIPNE conference in Natick, MA on Sunday 4/5/09.  Larry shared some of his older work from his book, Social Graces and Boxing, along with other great images from his career.  He has a wry sense of humor and welcoming irreverence for what one would expect when photography the Clintons or high fashion.  His square images, (all shot with real film!) allow us to see these events from new angles and perspectives.  The backs of womans’ legs, trays of glasses, and Obama descending the jetway with a jet engine in the foreground give us a view into Larry’s way of seeing the world.  “I really like circles” he said at one point and I found myself looking at each image and searching for all those circles, like Hirshfeld and Nina.  I appreciated his sense of humor and the stories he shared with us, like being thrown back 10 feet by the secret service while trying to get a shot of Obama.  

   

Sunday, April 19, 2009, 3 PM Senior Sunday – Randy Hope Goodman: From Beneath a Chador: A Photojournalist Covers Iran’s Islamic Revolution A talk and exhibition

Randy Hope Goodman began her photojournalism career in Iran (1980), during the months following the US Embassy takeover and the holding of fifty American hostages. Covering a grassroots delegation of Americans invited to meet with the Iranian students holding the US hostages, she photographed the delegates’ interviews with top ranking political and religious, their conversations with the students inside the US Embassy, their attendance at the Friday Prayer service held at the University of Tehran, and their visit to Evin Prison for interviews with former members of the Shah’s secret police, amongst others.

Randy Hope Goodman discusses her photographs taken in the early years of the Islamic Revolution (1980 – 1983), during the hostage taking and the Iran-Iraq war. Digital Silver Imaging worked with Randy to scan and print the images that will be on display.

RSVP by April. 12th to the Griffin Museum. RSVP by April 10.

For all Senior Sundays admission is FREE for seniors and their friends.

Sponsored by Salter Healthcare, New Horizons and a grant from the Winchester Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

From Boston Photography Center website –

With over 25 years Eric Luden, founder and owner of Digital Silver Imaging in Belmont, MA will present their true B&W; printing solution. Eric has been in the New England photographic community for 25 plus years and has worked as a fine art photographer and printer, ran a commercial studio, and went on to work for Kodak, Ilford and HARMAN technology. Digital Silver Imaging provides archival gelatin silver prints from digital files.

Eric will provide a brief overview of the digital printing world and the various technologies that have existed. He will primarily focus on the b&w; solutions for photographers. This will include the work he has done with Ilford and the development of various ink technologies and most recently, the b&w; digital papers that Ilford recently developed. He will have some information on archival properties and comparison samples of B&W;, Color and Inkjet.

As the official B&W; printer for the Boston Globe image archive we want
to let you know about photos from the 1947 opening day! Ted Williams!