This will be slightly off topic except for the fact that the printing was done by fellow LF Fourm member J. Gilbert Plantinga.
I have an exhibit opening Saturday July 11 at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, NY. Reception is from 5:00 to 8:00.
The exhibit consists of two 80 foot long continuous prints detailing both shores of the Hudson River from the Statue of Liberty to Albany (one print is the East shore, the other print is the West shore; 300 miles of totla shore line are involved). Each print also shows similar photographs from 100 years ago, making it possible to see how the river has changed, or not, over time. The exhibit is installed so that you enter a corridor (the prints are suspended from the ceiling) with the Statue of Liberty on your left and New York City on your right. You can enter the corridor and walk the "150 miles" of river as it snakes its way through the gallery and finally exit the corridor at Albany / Rensselaer. And you do not even need to worry about the tide!
This exhibit represents about 3 years of planning that culminated in 21 hours of photography that yielded 4,000 photos. 2,500 photos were then used to create the two 80 foot long prints. The manual stitching took over 200 hours to perform and I averaged about 2 miles per hour for the 300 total miles of shore line. The project, which was commissioned by the museum and the Open Space Institute, will hopefully be undertaken again in the year 2109 so that there will be 300 years of photographs on record. This project (a true test of physical, mental, and logistical perseverance) would not have been possible without the assistance of many, many people, including the 3 boat owners who generously allowed me to photograph from their boats.
Also on exhibit in a separate gallery of the Museum is a show of seldom seen, and some newly restored, 19th-century American Landscape paintings, with an emphasis on Hudson River School artists, with scenes from New York City to Niagara Falls. There is a very large Albert Bierstadt that I have my eye on.
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Originally Posted by Alex Wei
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