Joe Baraban Uses Sunset Photo eSatin for Museum Prints

After 40 years of success shooting corporate and advertising photography, Joe Baraban has submerged himself in the world of contemporary art photography. For the past two years, he has traveled throughout Texas documenting old windows. “I photograph the windows as they exist today, and use virtually no help from Photoshop,” says Baraban.
Following a one-man show [...]

John Caponigro’s New DVD Explains Fine Art Digital Printing

By Eileen Fritsch
At PhotoPlus Expo last October, I sat in on an Epson-sponsored session in which John Paul Caponigro attempted to explain everything you need to know about inkjet printing in an intense, two-hour session. He covered an awful lot of valuable information, including the importance of printing your work and why digital printing is [...]

Brilliant Studio Continues the Tradition of Collaborative Printmaking

By Dustin Flowers
The newest issue of LexJet’s In Focus newsletter shines the Artist Spotlight on one of my customers, photographer and master printer Bob Tursack of Brilliant Studio and Brilliant Graphics in Exton, PA (near Philadelphia).
Brilliant Studio provides top-quality printmaking in the broadest sense of the word. While Bob can reproduce art with the utmost [...]

Vincent Goetz Brings a Painterly Feel to Abstract Photography

Now more than ever, photography careers are shaped by how quickly and clearly you can recognize emerging markets for images. Just ask Vincent Goetz, who recently resumed his photography career after taking a 30-year hiatus from the craft.

Like many of his peers, Goetz developed an interest in photography in high school, bought a lot of [...]

PDN PhotoPlus Conference Can Help Photojournalists Adapt to Changing Markets

In a recent issue of the New York Times, reporter David Jolly created some buzz with his story headlined: Lament for a Dying Field: Photojournalism. He pointed to the sharp cutbacks in newspaper and magazine photography budgets, the financial woes of international photo agencies, and the fact that pictures and video shot by amateurs are [...]

Desk-Front Displays for Photo, Art, and Promotional Prints

By Darren Vena

At LexJet, we love it when photographers and artists send us pictures that show some of the creative ways they are using some of the inkjet-printable materials we sell.
In two previous posts on this blog (about photographers Leslie D. Bartlett and David DeJonge), we’ve shown you why LexJet’s Water-Resistant Satin Cloth is quickly [...]

Ansen Seale’s Slit-Scan Photography Reveals Hidden Realities

By Bill Weiser
Just as a microscope or telescope allows us to see things that aren’t visible to the naked eye, the slit-can camera created by photographer Ansen Seale allows us to view everyday objects in a whole new way. Instead of recording a single moment in time, Seale’s slit-scan camera records objects over a period [...]

How Photography Careers Evolve: A Profile of Jim LaSala

By Kelly Price

In a previous post on Studio LexJet, Dustin Flowers talked about how the career of fine-art photographer Theo Anderson has evolved.  To illustrate just how different each photographer’s career path and vision can be, let me tell you about Jim LaSala. He lives in New Jersey, but grew up in Brooklyn.
Jim LaSala didn’t [...]

Book Presents Tips for New Sellers of Art Photography

By Eileen Fritsch
Compared to the number of books that have been published on digital photography and Photoshop, relatively few books have been written on inkjet photo printing. Even fewer guides have been published about how to mat, mount, and frame inkjet prints for display in an exhibition or gallery.
That’s why I was intrigued by a [...]

How Photography Careers Evolve: A Profile of Theo Anderson

By Dustin Flowers
At LexJet, we talk to dozens of successful photography professionals every day. One thing we’ve learned is that photography careers often take some interesting twists. Few photographers are doing the same type of work they started out doing 20 years ago.
Each photographer has a unique story—about how they got their first break and how they [...]