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Taken for the cover of Life Magazine, Jefferson Airplane, 1968 by Art Kane
Art Kane pioneered the art of conceptual portraiture. He didn’t photograph artists doing their thing, he photographed them doing HIS thing. Kane summed up his approach to photography with this statement: “Performance shots are a waste of time, they look like everyone else’s. If you want to shoot a performer, then grab them, own them, you have to own people, then twist them into what you want to say about them.”
Like all his subjects, he immersed himself in their music to develop his concept. In the case of Jefferson Airplane, he saw flight as a defining principle of their approach. He designed the plexiglass cubes to stack the band in to create the illusion of flying, and also to reference the visual metaphor of acid rock with these large sugar cubes of acid. The plexi cubes cost $3000 to make, a fortune for an editorial shoot in 1968, but Kane was able to command it. The photograph was taken in Queens, NYC, just south of the 59th street bridge and across the East river from the United Nations, at a gypsum factory that lends a bizarre and almost lunar landscape.
Art Kane fine art print details
Limited edition, fine art prints of Art Kane photographs are created from Kane's original negatives and transparencies and have been scanned on a high performance Heidelberg drum scanner with a maximum optical resolution of 19,200 dpi. The Digital C-Type photograph is made by LI Digital Inc., NYC, a specialist in fine art photographic printing. The 16” x 20” and larger sizes are made on an Epson Fine Art Printer using Epson Premium Luster Archival Photo Paper. The photographs include an official Art Kane Estate document that is stamped, dated, edition numbered, and countersigned for authenticity by Jonathan Kane, Art Kane's son and Director of the Art Kane Archive. The document is created on archival crack and peel paper and can be placed on the verso of the image, or on the back of the frame at the client's discretion
- Creator:Art Kane (1925 - 1995, American)
- Creation Year:1968
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:30x40" - Edition 7Price: $6,000
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- Gallery Location:Austin, TX
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1812216090712
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