Amplifier
Danny Clinch
Fotografiska New York
December 2019

Fotografiska New York

If you’re not aware of what Fotografiska is don’t feel like you’ve been living under a rock. Most of us (NY’ers that is) can’t even pronounce the name properly let alone be held accountable for not realizing that this group took up residence on 22nd & Park Avenue South and now is poised to take over the world with their gigantor-scale museum/restaurant/book store/cafe/wellness chapel/event space/mega-photographic exhibition hall theme park … (and we mean that in a nice way).

Now, if you don’t know who Danny Clinch is then, well … maybe you have been living under a rock. And we mean that in the most gentle “you need to get out more” kind of way.

Either way – here’s your big chance to check out the newest game in town (Fotografiska) and one of the longest running hardest working names in show business, our man, Danny Clinch … and all in one easy take. Clinch’s pop-up “Amplifier” exhibition/gallery literally christened Fotogafiska’s 5th floor event space on December 14th (their opening weekend). Of course, we were there to enjoy the show(s) – meaning both photographic  and musical — and also to review a bit of our own handiwork, having produced a number of pieces for the exhibition.

The man himself, performing with Brooklyn’s Antibalas

Danny is arguably one of our oldest customers … and easily one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. Fotografiska is the newest thing going and their future looks quite bright. We consider ourselves lucky to be associated with these fine folks on every count.

Fotografiska’s 5th floor event space

Danny and Maria — hardcore industry survivors.

Cheers !

Check out Danny’s website here … and all the fine offerings from Fotografiska here.

Tags: Archival Pigment Printing (Inkjet), Danny Clinch, Exhibition Mounting, Exhibitions, Fotografiska New York

Walls of Sound
Danny Clinch
Milk Gallery
March 6 – April 6

Our good friend — and perhaps even our oldest customer — Danny Clinch had something of a retrospective at NYC’s Milk Gallery in March. Clinch is a prolific shooter, so editing his absurdly large catalog of images into a cohesive show proved to be a significant challenge for him — but one that, by judging from the crowd’s reactions on opening night, was well worth his efforts.

The Milk Gallery is a pretty impressive space — and one capable of constant reinvention. Clinch’s team mashed up two thematic solutions: Walls of Sound meets Motor Drive — that’s a double, albeit mild, double entendre, I believe — and they created a number of installs to work specifically within the site’s unique features (note the giant window covers). He even pulled out a few of tricks of his own, like this viewer accessible Hasselblad set-up and a huge “festival wall” installation, which, was later sold off piece by piece at a final de-install party.

We helped out with the big prints (though not that giant cling-wrap thing of Bruce’s face in the window!) and by far not the majority of the exhibition — no, more so for us — the show was a bit of a walk through the past with some new twists here and there. It was great to see prints from the old shoots that we processed film from as far back as 1997 — and sometimes surprising to see the new edits as well. Danny mentioned wanting to shake things up from his usual selects … and Walls of Sound did not disappoint.

Of course, the man himself was on hand, signing copies of his aptly titled latest book Still Moving.
(note: that’s got to be a record beating third double entendre in one blog post)

Tags: Archival Pigment Printing (Inkjet), Danny Clinch, Exhibitions

Here’s an image of Tom Morello in His 1971 Dodge Demon by Danny Clinch. Originally shot in Los Angeles sometime in 2000 on a Rage Against The Machine shoot, this five-frame continuous half-frame strip of color negative film has been scanned and imaged at 36 x 96″!

The first frame shows it here at LTI/Lightside having just finished printing. The second is the install view at the Wall Street offices of Droga5, who commissioned the piece.

Tags: Archival Pigment Printing (Inkjet), Danny Clinch, Film Processing, Some Days ..., The nicest things ...

Burning Bridges
Tim Barber:
Nike Bowery Stadium
2010

Now that I’ve been to the Nike Bowery Stadium and having tried to describe the night to a bunch of different people I’ve found myself on the dumb end of the question: What exactly is the Nike Bowery Stadium? I say “dumb end” because I actually haven’t been able to answer. So like any smart guy would do, I looked them up online and checked the “about” link … here’s how Nike (I presume) calls it:

Nike Stadiums are new multi-purpose destinations in Berlin, London, Milan, New York, Paris and Tokyo. Stages for inspired performers, labs for innovative expressions, spaces where stories are told and others are written.

We are always open, always on.

I don’t know if “always open” translates into 24 hours … but there’s still a good bit of “Huh?” in there for me. For instance, they don’t mention anywhere that there’s a retail component to the whole thing and yet, I found myself purchasing a a pair of these?

Anyway, the real reason we were there was to revel in the fantastic display of b+w images shot by Tim Barber called Burning Bridges (again, don’t ask) … the important thing is, the work looks great!

Barber (left)

From Darkness to a Dream
Danny Clinch
Morrison Hotel Gallery
October – November, 2010

The Moment (The New York Times / T Magazine), recently caught up with photographer, harmonica player and filmmaker, Danny Clinch, whose images can be seen at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in SoHo from Thursday.

Read the interview by clicking here:

As mentioned above, it rained Thursday night … pretty hard, pretty much all night, in fact. Despite this, here’s what the Danny Clinch opening at Morrison Hotel looked like by the time I arrived:

Jammed, from one end …

to the other.

Clinch, mobbed.

Tags: B+W Silver Gelatin Printing, Danny Clinch, Digital-C Printing, Exhibitions, Film Processing, Morrison Hotel Gallery, Mounting, Scanning, The Morrison Hotel Gallery, Tim Barber