Pierre Soulages: A Century
through October 26, 2019
at Lévy Gorvy

Photographing diverse and challenging works of art requires a thorough understanding of lighting, the capabilities of the photographic process and color management. This is particularly true when the style of an artist and the materials they choose to work with push the limits of what can be successfully achieved in the final image to be used for reproduction.

For Lévy Gorvy’s exhibition catalogue, Pierre Soulages: A Century, Tim Nighswander of IMAGING4ART was brought in to photograph Soulages’s paintings including notable works from his “Outrenoir” or “beyond black” series executed from 1979 through the 1990s. Lévy Gorvy describes these as works wherein “dense layers of pigment record subtle shifts in ambient light.”

The unique challenge in photographing these particular paintings was to maintain the intent of the artist by accurately depicting how a viewer would experience the work. Finding the proper balance of light, shadow and reflection was essential.

Pierre Soulages, Peinture 222 x 137 cm, Printemps 1980, 1980, Oil on canvas, 87 7/16 x 53 15/16 inches (222 x 137 cm). © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photography by Tim Nighswander / IMAGING4ART

Pierre Soulages, Peinture 92 x 73 cm, 27 février 1989, 1980, Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 28 3/4 inches (92 x 173 cm). © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photography by Tim Nighswander / IMAGING4ART

Pierre Soulages will be the latest living artist to have a solo exhibition at the Louvre, Homage to Soulages, which opens on December 11, 2019. Other artists who have had solo exhibitions at the Louvre during their lifetimes include Anselm Kiefer, Cy Twombly and François Morellet.

Our thanks to Lévy Gorvy.

Warhol Women at Lévy Gorvy

“On view through June 15 at Lévy Gorvy’s landmark building on Madison Avenue, the selection of paintings, covering the full scope of Warhol’s career, invites the viewer to ponder the artist’s complex and often contradictory relationship to myths and ideals of femininity, beauty, and power.”
– from Warhol Women at Lévy Gorvy
 

Andy Warhol, (clockwise from upper left) Brigitte Bardot, Licorice Marilyn, Red Jackie, Blondie, © 2019 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Lévy Gorvy. Photography by Tim Nighswander / IMAGING4ART2011

 
“…You’re always hearing about women artists, women writers,” says gallery owner Dominique Lévy. “Rather than being progressive, we’re looking at women backward instead of forward. Warhol’s way of looking at women felt timely – he could portray women from the eye of a man without sexualizing the image.”
– from Architectural Digest, April 24, 2019
 
Tim Nighswander and IMAGING4ART extend our gratitude to Lévy Gorvy for the opportunity to photograph many of the 50 portraits featured in Warhol Women.

Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey
at Lévy Gorvy

Through October 24, 2018, Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey, is on exhibit at Lévy Gorvy, 90 Park Avenue, New York, NY. Organized and curated by gallery co-founder Brett Gorvy, the nearly one hundred works on exhibit are inspired by William Blake’s poem, Auguries of Innocence. The exhibition also features seven butterfly collage works by Jean Dubuffet – the first time an assembly of these rare and intricate collages will be shown together in New York.

A video narrated by Gorvy provides insight into the thought process and work that went into the making of the exhibition.

Reviews from Wall Street Magazine, Art Forum, The Art Newspaper, The Robb Report, Brooklyn Rail and more can be found on the gallery’s website

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Jean Dubuffet, La Strabique (The Cross-Eyed Man), 1953, Collage with butterfly wings and gouache on paper board, 9 3/4 x 7 inches (24.8 x 17.8 cm), Private Collection, Courtesy Pace Gallery, © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photography by Tim Nighswander/ IMAGING4ART

We are grateful to Lévy Gorvy for the opportunity Tim Nighswander, our Lead Photographer, had in photographing a third of the works featured in the exhibition – both at the gallery’s flagship location, as well as residences of several prominent collectors. The exhibition catalogue will be available soon.

Dan Colen: Mailorder Mother Purgatory
at Lévy Gorvy

Lévy Gorvy proudly presents Dan Colen: Mailorder Mother Purgatory, opening May 2 and continuing through June 23, 2018. Dan Colen’s inaugural exhibition at Lévy Gorvy was conceived for the gallery’s three floors of exhibition space in their flagship location. The exhibition features new paintings and sculpture from three recent bodies of work. Lévy Gorvy represents Dan Colen in collaboration with Gagosian and Massimo De Carlo galleries.

Dan Colen, Electra, 2018, Silkscreen on canvas, 120 x 96 inches (304.8 x 243.8 cm), © Dan Colen 2018, Courtesy the artist and Lévy Gorvy. Photography by Tim Nighswander/ IMAGING4ART

IMAGING4ART photographed the artwork and installation views for Lévy Gorvy’s fully illustrated catalogue which features a conversation between the artist and Jeff Koons, moderated by curator Douglas Fogle, as well as an essay by art historian and critic Adrianna Campbell, a noted specialist in American art of the modern and contemporary periods.

Our Face-to-Face Time with Leonardo da Vinci

The record-shattering sale of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening sale in New York on November 15, 2017, has special meaning for the IMAGING4ART team, having had exclusive access and face-to-face time with the now-famous 500-year-old masterpiece.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Salvator Mundi, Oil on walnut panel
© 2011 Salvator Mundi LLC, Photograph: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART

In 2010, an unprecedented opportunity came our way when art historian Robert Simon engaged our lead photographer, Tim Nighswander, to photograph what we were told was “a small painting on a wood panel.” Only a small circle of people knew of the then recently-disovered painting and Simon was careful not to disclose any information about the work until we arrived at the first photography shoot.  It was then we learned from Nica Gutman-Rieppi, who assisted in the technical analysis of the painting ,that we would be photographing a masterwork by Leonardo da Vinci entitled Salvator Mundi. Last week the painting that had been rediscovered in 2005 by Simon and his partners achieved a price of $450.3 million at Christie’s, making it the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction.

Over the course of several confidential photography shoots, Nighswander worked closely with Simon, Dianne Dwyer Modestini and color specialist Pamela Seymour Smith Sharp to assure that the images met the highest standards of detail, clarity and fidelity to the original painting. The final and official images have been used for scholarly studies, press releases and publications including the London National Gallery’s exhibition catalogue, Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at The Court of Milan.  An extensive list of other publications where the images has been used can be seen here.

We extend our sincere gratitude to Robert Simon for relying on IMAGING4ART to photograph Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi – a once-in-a-lifetime experience we will always treasure.

“I have never worked on a photography project with anyone more careful, more scrupulous, and more committed to accuracy, fidelity and quality than Tim Nighswander, lead photographer at IMAGING4ART. I came to understand that achieving faithful imagery of a work of art was not a mechanical process, but one involving a union of technology and creativity at the highest level”

– Robert Simon, Art Historian

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Upcoming Publication from Phaidon/PPP Editions:
Artists Who Make Books

Working closely with esteemed art dealer Andrew Roth on a collaborative project with eminent book collector, Philip Aarons, IMAGING4ART recently completed photographing more than 100 artist-created books for a comprehensive survey, Artists Who Make Books.

Due out this fall, Artists Who Make Books will examine the range of the craft: from Xeroxed copies and hand-bound limited editions to elaborately printed volumes.

Clockwise from upper left: Andy Warhol A Gold Book, On Kawara One Million Years,
Richard Long River Avon Book, Dieter Roth bok 3c. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART

Andrew Roth is a rare-book dealer and publisher based in New York. He publishes books under his imprint, PPP Editions. In an interview with Art in America in 2009, Roth states, “For whatever the reason books have become a favored medium among contemporary artists,” and this book will feature noted artists Tauba Auerbach, Sophie Calle, John Baldessari, Hanna Darboven, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andy Warhol, Christopher Wool and many others.

Philip Aarons, president of Printed Matter, Inc., and his spouse, Shelley Fox Aarons, are avid collectors who own works by more than 500 artists and are renowned for their support of artist books.

We are grateful to The Production Department for the introduction to Andrew Roth.

Hiroshige’s Tokaido
at The Muscarelle Museum of Art

Ando Hiroshige, Kanbara, from The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road series, 1833, woodblock print, 9 3/4 inches x 14 1/2 inches.  Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART

Preserving the historic value of fragile archival documents often requires individual handling. IMAGING4ART specializes in on-site, bound book digitization – a service designed to assure utmost safety to vital documents while obtaining high-resolution digital images for archival, scholarly and publication purposes.

With our custom-built book cradle on-site at our client’s location, we can safely digitize oversized volumes, books with various sized spines, notebooks, portfolios, artist sketchbooks, diaries, and ephemera.

Our glass-free design eliminates any potential damage due to contact with the original document.  This solution protects the surface of the page from abrasion, lifting of print and possible object-to-object transfer of invisible contaminants.

Robert Gober is having his first large-scale survey in the United States at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY. The exhibition, Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor, opened on October 4, 2014 and runs through January 18, 2015.

Robert Gober, Prayers Are Answered, ©Robert Gober, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART

In addition to sculpture, the exhibition will feature drawings, prints and photographs spanning Gober’s career from the early 1980’s to the present. Working in close collaboration with the artist, Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor was organized by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator, and Paulina Pobocha, Assistant Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA.

 In the May 12, 2014 issue of The New Yorker, critic Peter Schjeldahl calls No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984-1989, “a big, museum-quality show at the David Zwirner gallery, …”  Read the article.

Spanning Zwirner’s gallery spaces at 525 and 533 W. 19th Street as well as 537 W. 20th Street, the exhibition focuses on artists who showed in New York and Cologne between 1984 and 1989. The exhibit runs through June 14, 2014.David Zwirner will publish an extensive catalogue of the exhibition featuring photographs by IMAGING4ART’s Tim Nighswander.

To view select images from the exhibition, please visit David Zwirner’s website by clicking on the image above.

We are pleased to share with you the new website of our client, The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation. From 2004 on, Tim Nighswander has lent his expertise in digital archiving strategies to the task of transitioning the Albers Foundation archive from film to a high-resolution digital archive for use on their website, condition reporting, marketing, as well as in numerous exhibition catalogues.

Images throughout the site were photographed by IMAGING4ART over a period of several years, documenting more than 5000 works in the Foundation collection. In both digital and print contexts, IMAGING4ART’s images maintain unmatched quality, color and intricate detail, demonstrating the versatility of our high-resolution images.

We congratulate The Albers Foundation on their new website being recently featured as WebPick of the Day on Communication Arts magazine online.

Visit The Albers Foundation’s website to explore the legacies and enduring achievements of Josef and Anni Albers.

The Albers Foundation’s new website was
designed by Daphne Geismar.
Programming and architecture by RANGER.

The Barnes Foundation: IMAGING4ART in a Digital Context

Images throughout the website were photographed by IMAGING4ART over a seven-year period, including over 800 paintings along with the gallery installations at both the original Merion, PA campus and at the new location in Philadelphia, PA.Many of these images can also be found in exhibition catalogues published by The Barnes Foundation, the most recent being The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. In both contexts, IMAGING4ART’s images maintain unmatched quality, color and intricate detail, demonstrating the versatility of IMAGING4ART’s high-resolution images.

Please visit The Barnes Foundation’s website to view their renowned collection, celebrated for its exceptional breadth, depth and quality featuring some of the greatest European and American masters of impressionism, post-impressionism and early modern art.

IMAGING4ART thrives in a world where changing technology, a thirst for knowledge in the arts, and high quality visual experiences are the norm.  We are motivated by our commitment to deliver high-resolution images of unsurpassed quality to meet our client’s diverse needs.

Experience Art From Every Angle©

with 360° ImageCapture©

IMAGING4ART’s 360° Image Capture© technology breathes new life into showcasing three-dimensional artworks and objects online.  By supplementing still photographs with dynamic 360° images viewers can physically rotate, manipulate and zoom in on objects of interest, allowing them to study on-line artwork more closely.  

360° Image Capture© benefits: 

• Heightens online experience
• Encourages interaction
• Sustains viewer interest
• Deepens online engagement
• Enhances appreciation of the artwork

IMAGING4ART‘s 360° Image Capture provides content that helps museums, galleries and institutions meet their interpretive goals by integrating today’s technology with meaningful audience engagement.

If you have not already considered enhancing your website with robust 360° photography, IMAGING4ART has designed a one-day pilot shoot to help our clients understand the process while allowing our team the opportunity to become better acquainted with your collection and needs.  To discuss all of our 360° photography options, please call Sue Lynn Thomas at 203-215-2148, or write to info@imaging4art.com.

We look forward to helping you obtain maximum impact for your website.

The new Barnes Foundation:
Photographed by IMAGING4ART

It’s a story that begins in 2006 when Tim Nighswander, our lead photographer, was called upon by The Barnes Foundation to photograph a Henri Matisse painting from their esteemed collection, The Joy of Life. Since then, IMAGING4ART has enjoyed a highly valued working relationship with The Barnes Foundation on numerous history-making projects, including capturing high-resolution imagery of:

• each wall ensemble in the 24 galleries and exhibition spaces at the Foundation’s original location in Merion, PA
• over 800 paintings from Dr. Barnes’ exceptional, world-renowned collection
• the de-installation and re-installation of Henri Matisse’s The Dance Mural (photographed both digitally and as a time-lapse video)
• more than 100 distinctive wall ensembles and galleries at the Foundation’s new location on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, PA

The process of documenting the world-renowned wall ensembles at the Foundation’s original home in Merion, PA, serves as the lasting record of the original building. It was undeniably a once in a lifetime opportunity – or so we thought.

  

Recently, The Barnes Foundation called upon IMAGING4ART in what turned out to be a second once in a lifetime opportunity for Tim Nighswander. For six consecutive weeks, with the newest state-of-the-art Hasselblad H4D 200 megapixel multi-shot camera in hand, Tim Nighswander worked diligently to capture over 100 wall ensembles and gallery images.

The photography had to be accomplished during off-hours, when the Barnes’ legendary collection was closed to the public. Up-front planning and strategizing with key members of The Barnes Foundation staff was critical to the success of the project.

With more than 2000 images photographed for the Barnes, our photography has since been integrated into the Barnes’ digital library, their newly redesigned website, published catalogues, news articles, marketing materials, and promotional items, and are currently in use for detailed scholarly research of the collection. Additionally, Barnes Foundation has also contributed many of these images to ARTstor, an image library consisting of over 1.3 million images for the arts & sciences. 

We are extremely grateful to The Barnes Foundation for their support and loyalty. It has been a distinct privilege and honor for IMAGING4ART helping them transition from film format to a state-of-the-art high-resolution digital archive, capturing new and often historically important imagery to be used to continue Dr. Barnes’ legacy in promoting the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts.