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Located at Atlanta, Georgia, Dean Imaging specializes in fine art museum quality digital print
imaging for exhibitions, portfolios, and limited edition books. Dean Imaging's creative director
John Dean has been producing high-end gallery quality photographic prints since 1980
and has been working daily with Epson large format pigment output since
2001. John Dean of Dean Imaging uses several large format Epson Photo Stylus machines,
each set up for specialized fine art applications. Output size ranges from
small intimate fine prints to very large 44"x 100" and longer. Dean Imaging
concentrates on working in a personalized way with artists in the
production of their prints. The studio is devoted to testing and offering
the finest 100% rag printmaking papers to their clients, such as Hahnemuhle
Photo Rag, Hahnemuhle William Turner, Premier Art Hot Press, Somerset Velvet
Enhanced, and Concorde Rag. Epson fine art prints are now shown all over the
world in the finest museums and galleries. Our new monochrome techniques
allow for pure rich black and white imagery to be produced on any media.
Utilizing a Quadtone Rip designed by Roy Harrington, we are now able to
"tone" our black and white to any color we want. This means totally neutral,
warm, cool, selenium tone, and Carbon Sepia tones are easily accessible.
These pure pigment monochromes have been rated for permanence beyond 300
years in daylight on the best media when sprayed with UV protective spray.
The Epson Archival CF inkset we also use has approximately twice the
permanence ratings as the Ultrachome inkset. All of
these new pigments have made color photography one of the most collectable
forms of artwork of our time. These pigment monochrome inkjet prints can now
match the color of any artwork or original photograph with out the presence
of metamerism. With a proper software rip, pigment monochrome prints can now
be shown under any lighting situation without altering the color or
saturation of the image. These Ultrachrome monochrome prints are capable of
subtle tonal transitions, deep blacks and delicate, fully alterable
monochrome hue. Deanimaging.com is known for working with individual artists
to come up with physical forms for their artwork in a digital form that
challenges both the artist as well as their audience to see photographic
presentation in a wholly new way. No longer are we bound by the limits of
Kodak color and plastic impermanent dye printmaking. New Carbon Pigment
monochrome photographic output is not only as lasting as archivally
processed silver prints, but in some cases can actually out perform the
stability of traditional black and white techniques, and with much greater
control and repeatability from session to session. www.deanimaging.com is
now working with painters and other non-photo based artists to accurately
reproduce editions, or single copies of oil, acrylic, and watercolor
paintings, as well as fine drawings, traditional prints, and mixed media
works. Any type of artwork can be directly scanned here in Atlanta, or
output from drum scans of transparencies or negatives of the artwork. All
works are proofed for exact color and tonal content before final prints are
made. Most of our work for photo printmaking is done from high resolution
high bit drum scans of all film types. More and more work is coming in from
the higher quality digital cameras. Canvas is an especially exciting new
area for all kinds of presentation possibilities, from photo images as well
as from scans of original large and small paintings and drawings. We want to
work with more painters and multi-media artists in creating complementary
outlets for limited edition fine prints. Museums are now showing Epson
pigment prints along side all other accepted media. Recent tests by the
Wilhelm Institute have shown that Epson Ultrachrome pigment prints can, with
proper rag media last greater than 200 years in normal viewing light for 8
hours a day when sprayed with Premier Art Print Shield and shown behind UV
glass. Monochrome prints printed with Epson Ultrachrome pigments, on
appropriate media can last up to or longer than 300 years in daylight when
sprayed and shown behind UV glass. Dark storage can be longer if storage
conditions are acceptable. Somerset Velvet and Premier Art Hot Press have
shown outstanding color and monochrome stability, exceeding almost all types
of photographic reproduction. This is a whole new era for permanent,
saturated and accurate color reproduction. The Boston Museum of Fine Art is
now using large format Epson printers for their careful and highly sought
after painting reproductions from their collection.
Deanimaging also uses less expensive high-quality coated photo
papers such as Epson Premium Luster, Epson Enhanced Matte, and Legion Matte
for advertising, portrait, or fine art photographers on a restricted budget.
Deanimaging uses pigment inksets such as Epson Ultrachrome in an Epson
Stylus Pro 9600, Epson Archival inkset in an Epson Stylus Pro 10,000 , and
Cone Piezzotone carbon pigments in an Epson Pro Stylus 7000. Very high-end
extremely saturated color prints are possible on coated and non-coated
papers, canvas, cotton fabric, silk, rag vellum and synthetic silk media. We
work with artists to produce the finest gallery ready artwork from their
original negatives, transparencies, and digital camera files. Pigment prints
on Rag and Canvas media, screen dividers output on the finest coated silks,
and composite images created in Photoshop are some of the areas Dean Imaging
works with. There are many types of archival canvas media now available from
soft matte finish to glossy and textured. Print sprays such as Premier Art
print guard has not only give these new media protection agains uv light but
also protects them against pollution, moisture, fingerprints, etc. These new
UV print sprays have been shown by the Wilhelm Institute to double or even
triple the life of a high-end pigment inkjet print. Silks made by Jacquard,
especially for inkjet processes, have give forms to photographs never before
dreamed of. Photo inkjet pigment silk imaging can be layered and lit in a
gallery for all kinds of exciting sculptural forms. Photographic pigment
printing has come of age. Any kind of photography or visual art can be
reproduced, enhanced, combined, and reconstituted in various forms with
totally archival and color saturated precision. DeanImaging specializes in
working one on one with all types of artists in the creation of their
prints, exhibitions, and portfolios. Photoshop combined with new media and
improved stability pigments have given us possibilities that 5 years ago we
never even dreamed of.
John Dean is the creative director of Dean Imaging of Atlanta, Georgia (www.deanimaging.com)
John Dean started his business Dean Imaging in Atlanta in 2002 to specialize
in the exciting new area of archival digital imaging for the art community.
Dean Imaging specializes in working with fine art photographers, portrait
photographers, designers, and related visual artists to materialize their
creative ideas digitally. John has both a BFA in fine art photography from
the University of Arizona in Tucson and an MFA in fine art photography from
Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He
studied with Todd Walker, William Larson, Harold Jones, Esther Parada,
Martha Madigan, Larry Fink, and offset printmaking with Michael Becotte at
the Tyler Offset Workshop in Philadelphia, and the history of photography
with Keith McElroy P.H.D. In Tucson. He has a very strong background in the
history of photography having worked as an assistant at the Center For
Creative Photography in Tucson for 3 years where he learned about the finest
photographic printmaking first hand from the actual portfolios of America's
and Europe's greatest photographers. In that environment he met many of
these great printmakers: like Ansel Adams, Emmit Gowin, Harry Callahan,
Aaron Siskind, Frederick Sommer, Paul Caponigro, Jerry Uelsman, and W.
Eugene Smith to name a hand full. Technically having come from a traditional
photo background within the large format view camera discipline, John
couldn't believe how the inventions of Adobe Photoshop and high stability
pigment inkjet imaging has changed the entire landscape of all forms of
photography. It has made what we did even 10 years ago seem primitive and
19th Century by comparison. It is also no longer toxic, and much more
textural and physical in so many ways. Dean Imaging strives to provide a
service where individual artists have a say in the final production of their
unique bodies of work within the new media context that now exists. Dean
Imaging is primarily concerned with accuracy of the artists visual intention
and great care is given to the longevity of the final work produced. Color
photography has never been this beautiful, textural, and varied. Monochrome
photography has never been so controllable. Dean Imaging is not interested
in making artworks that don't last, or in doing things quickly in a rushed
framework. Dean Imaging is not a service bureau with quick turn around times
and high volume schedules. John tries to work with creative individuals that
know what they want to do but might not know how, or have the inclination to
spend their time in mastering such pursuits. As the new techniques and
aesthetics of digital printmaking continue to evolve, we will make sure we
grow along with them. The next 10 years will prove to be revolutionary for
us all, that is for sure. Contact John Dean at www.deanimaging.com or visit our
Atlanta Georgia office.</p>
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