Giclée Print
This is said to be the best picture ever taken of George Greenough riding his fiberglass Velo now in the collection of Roger Nance.
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George Hamilton Perkins Greenough (born November 6, 1941) is an influential surfer known during the 1960s and 1970s for his designs and work in film, board design, fin characteristics, and other creations for the aquatic medium. Greenough's and McTavish's contributions to developing the shortboards resulted in a wave of new advancements in surfing technology and shapes used to design boards.
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In the early 1970’s I attended Brooks Institute of Photography and gained a good technical knowledge of printing and in 1975 I discovered, quite unexpectedly, a method for hand-coloring black and white photographs which, to my knowledge, is not known or used by anyone else. Using a simple palette it produces a cross between a painting and a photograph. The result of the coloring, along with the subject matter, gives the pictures a timeless quality that never fails to please. Knowing how much adulteration there is in photography I have never divulged my technique. There are, to be sure, quite a few photographers who have done superb hand-colored black and white work, however, I stand alone in my method.
I live in isolated coastal mountains in California overlooking a spectacular coastline, surrounded by a pristine, wild and powerful environment where I built my own small home using a free-form method of construction not normally used but giving me great artistic freedom. Utilities are not available and consequently the majority of my original prints were all made in a solar powered darkroom between 1980 and 2004 (some of the pictures on this site go back to 1974). It is from this world of unparalleled beauty, here and abroad, that my pictures have sprung.
In 2004 I dismantled my darkroom. New pictures and reproductions are high quality giclee prints on fine art paper or canvas gallery wraps made from digital scans of the original film and or prints. New pictures, taken from 2007 on with a digital camera, are digitally printed yet still hand-colored then reproduced.
My hand-colored pictures capture the essence of the subject and are done in natural light in an informal, candid fashion. My goal as a fine art photographer is to provide, through my method, an awareness of natural beauty as art in itself worth preserving and to give a sense of timelessness to all my subjects whether landscapes, people, wildlife or surfing.
- Paul Kemntizer