Welcome to Pete Kelly's Etsy shop a place to find contemporary Fine Art Photography, printed as archival pigment prints on 315 gsm watercolour paper, Unframed or Framed as hand crafted ArtBlocks on recycled wood using the Photo Encaustic process, an ancient technique which combines Beeswax with Damar Resin.
A glass-like surface which is archival, non-yellowing and tactile, the painterly surface created is non-reflective, adding a final layer of texture to the painterly photographic image.
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Until the mid 1950s it was widely considered vulgar and pretentious to frame a photograph for a gallery exhibition. Prints were usually simply pasted onto blockboard or plywood, or given a white border in the darkroom and then pinned at the corners onto display boards. Prints were thus shown without any glass reflections obscuring them. Steichen's famous The Family of Man exhibition was unframed, the pictures pasted to panels. Even as late as 1966 Bill Brandt's MoMA show was unframed, with simple prints pasted to thin plywood. Since about 2000 there has been a noticeable move toward once again showing contemporary gallery prints on boards and without glass. In addition, throughout the twentieth century, there was a noticeable increase in the size of prints.
Manchester, england,