Update on the fine art prints for Imoto, Palm Beach
My prints for the Palm Beach new restaurant Imoto were due to be finished today, I drove down to Color House in Miami to do one last quality control and two of the three prints looked great. But the third print was a little off (they caught the mistake before I got there but this is why you have to check over everything you do) they had already started removing it from the plexi mounting. There is a reason they tell you it is a permanent adhesion to the Plexiglas when you frame this way. Removing the print completely ruins it and takes 3 guys. It was awesome. This was one of the rare times I actually had my point and shoot Panasonic Lumix with me and so I grabbed some photo’s and a little video of the process to show how messy it is.
Removing print from plexi from Kate Benson on Vimeo.
Havasupai Pictures
These are some of my favorite images taken from my trip to the Havasupai Reservation with my friend Joey in 2011. It’s a journey I highly recommend, 8 miles into part of the Grand Canyon, 3 miles to the Mooney Falls, the “mother of waters”.
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Andreas Gursky, Rhein II (1/6)
From The Online Photographers post yesterday, this was too good to not share (thanks to Dana for sending it along to me).
“We have a new winner in the “$12 Million Shark Sweepstakes.” In a smack down of the piker owner of the paltry $3.89 million Cindy Sherman picture that held the record for mere months (since May), a German collector sold one of six copies of Andreas Gursky’s 1999 work “Rhein II” at Christie’s yesterday for $4,338,500 (including buyer’s premium).
And by the way, it’s a Photoshopped pic—there were elements in the scene Gursky didn’t like, so, in his words, “I decided to digitalize the pictures and leave out the elements that bothered me.”* (A. Gursky quoted in A. Ltgens, “Shrines and Ornaments: A Look into the Display Cabinet,” Andreas Gursky: Fotografien 1994–1998, p. xvi). “Like the painter, Gursky constructs his composition, removing all small arbitrary details interrupting his clean horizon.” (Peter Galassi, MoMA.)
It’s now the most expensive photograph ever. Of course, the clock is ticking—for how many months will this record last? Be afraid, Herr G., be very afraid….
—Mike, who’s definitely in the wrong end of this business
(Thanks to Howard French)”
Can I just say there is something to be said for a digital, photoshopped, unarchival image setting the record for highest price ever paid for a photograph? Imagine what a photo that would last more than 50 years would bring in!
The comments were hilarious, here are a few of my favorites:
Featured Comment by Jenny: “The level to which I don’t understand things has been brought to a record height.”
Featured Comment by Will Whitaker: “Gursky who?? Nevermind.”
Read the rest of the comments on the Online Photographers post, “And We Have A New Winner” or leave your own here 
Kate Benson in The Light of Florida Exhibition, and other arty things to do this weekend.
In Florida, our summers are rough, let’s be honest. Photo shoots turn into games of dodge the thunderstorm/shoot before the sweat seeps through the model’s clothes or heat exhaustion sets in. So December is when we get our BBQs, beaches, basically we get outside back. Art is synonymous with December here in Miami. We have our wonderful Art Basel at the beginning of the month. So if this summer has felt a little long to you and you want to pretend it is December…. (or maybe this is just a really long winded lead into my plug). This weekend is perfect! We have Saturday night art walk in Wynwood where you can stroll through galleries sipping wine and discussing the artists intentions (museums, are you listening? wine + art = awesome). Tonight at Bakehouse an amazingly talented artist ENRIQUE SENDRA, has a solo exhibition opening (you may have read about it in the Miami Herald last Sunday, my good friend Matt wrote and photographed the article). Or if your residing in the north, The Light of Florida (an ASMP sponsored show) is up at the Mark K. Wheeler Gallery at the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale -featuring a piece from yours truly.
Hope to see you at one of these stops this weekend!
