Graham Nash is not just a stoned California hippie
What the heck is one of my favorite guitar-playing, harmony-singing, songwriting hippies, Graham Nash, doing at Macworld?
Most of you probably associate Graham with the folk-rock band, Crosby, Stills & Nash (and sometimes Young). But Graham wasn't at the Peachpit booth this week talking about music... he was talking about photography (his own, which is excellent, and others), as well as fine art digital imaging and printmaking.
Graham, along with R. Mac Holbert (CSN's former road manager), conceived and founded Nash Editions in 1990 in order to develop methods of outputting Nash's digitally manipulated black and white photographs. Starting in the late eighties with a $125,000 IRIS 3047 Graphics Printer, which they heavily modified (warranty be damned!) in order to accommodate a wider range of papers, through their work today with Epson 9800, 7800 and 4800 printers, Nash Editions is now recognized as the premier fine art digital print studio in the country, if not the world. Both Graham and Holbert were on hand after they spoke to sign copies of their new book, Nash Editions: Photography and the Art of Digital Printing.
As a bit of a reformed hippie myself, I was just happy not to have to wade through clouds of pot smoke to get close to Nash here, as I have had to in some other venues.
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Dan S said 1:16PM on 1-12-2007
Graham Nash was one of the pioneers of digital printing, and was one of the inspirations to get me started in the field back in 1997 (plug for my own site: click on my name to see examples).
Apple had one of their "professional spotlight" stories on him a couple of years ago.
http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/nashandholbert/
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Victor Agreda Jr said 2:20PM on 1-12-2007
Nash is fantastic, though I had no idea he was so geeky! :)
I guess I was too busy with the internet back when he was getting into print ;)
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Glenn Fleishman said 6:27PM on 1-13-2007
I met Nash in Maine at the Kodak Center for Creative Imaging back in 1992 where he, Holbert, and their team came to offer a couple-day workshop on digital printing. IRIS sent printers to the event, even. As the guy who ran the technical side of the 27,000 square foot facility with 100 state of the art Macs (IIfx computers -- laugh now), I met Nash and his gang to get them set up the night before the event.
Nash turns to me in the elevator on the way up and says, "I have a Finder-mountable DAT drive." I said, "Cool!"
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Laurie said 6:41PM on 1-13-2007
LOL @ Glenn - that's a great story ;)
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