The Grand Tour [Photocopy] [Hardcover]

Dick Arentz (Photographer), Thomas Southall (Introduction)

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Publication Date: September 1998

Signed by Dick Arentz

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The Grand Tour Essay by Thomas Southall, Curator of Photography at the High Museum. The photographs are taken from six years work in continental Europe. The selections presented are homage to the photographers who, over a century ago, visited and recorded images during their "Grand Tour" of the continent. "Arentz is simply the best platinum and palladium printer working today." Bruce Kurtz, Curator of 20th Century Art, Phoenix Art Museum, 1993. Nazraeli Press 1998. 20 pages. Hardcover with 26 duotone reproductions of Arentz platinum and palladium prints. Limited signed copies available

About the Author

Dick Arentz is a fine-art photographer with more than 75 one-person exhibits of his work throughout the United States and Europe. He is well known as the authority on platinum and palladium printing and has given numerous workshops and seminars on the subject continuously for the past 25 years. His work is included in most major museums and corporate collections, including The New York and San Francisco Museums of Modern Art, The International Center of Photography, The George Eastman House and The Center for creative Photography.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 40 pages
• Publisher: Nazraeli Pr (September 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3923922620
• ISBN-13: 978-3923922628
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 10 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,308,962 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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In 1969, after amateur activities, Dick Arentz began three years of study with Phil Davis of the Photography Department at the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. His interest at that time, was in the large format silver contact print. As an informal "thesis," he produced the Death Valley Portfolio in 1972. That was reproduced in a 1973 issue of Camera Magazine
After a sabbatical in Europe in 1973, Dick Arentz relocated in Flagstaff, Arizona where he taught studio and photographic history at NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY. In 1978, He was selected by the Arts and Humanities Commission as one of TWENTY ARIZONA ARTISTS. That year he began a six year project which was to be published as Four Corners Country in 1986, partly subsidized by a EDNA RIDER WHITEMAN FOUNDATION GRANT. The book was reissued in soft cover in 1994.
He returned to Ann Arbor in 1980 to study the platinum process with Phil Davis. Because of the lack of published information and the unpredictability of materials, he began researching and writing about platinum and palladium techniques. In 1983, he began to produce negatives with an antique 12x20 Folmer and Schwing Camera. By 1985, major museums and corporations began to collect his work. In 1987, he produced The American Southwest, a limited edition portfolio of 12x20 platinum prints with an essay by James Enyeart.
In 1988, desirous of a change in subject matter, Arentz accepted an ISAAC W. BERNHEIM FELLOWSHIP to live and work in Kentucky. He began a two year project photographing the Midsouthern states and Appalachia, concentrating on the human effect of the landscape. In 1990, a traveling exhibition and catalogue of that work, Outside The Mainstream, with an introduction by Merry Foresta, was funded by the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS.
Arentz continue to publish and teach the techniques of platinum and palladium printing. In 1990, he produced his first text, An Outline For Platinum And Palladium Printing. As a result of his research, he was able to solve a problem that has plagued non-silver printers for years with the formulation of specifications to allow a major paper company to manufacture a paper suitable for these photographic processes. Today, his book, Platinum & Palladium Printing 2nd edition: Focal Press 2004, is considered to be the definitive resource on the subject.
In 1990, Dick Arentz was one of four Arizona artists selected for the PHOENIX ART MUSEUM TRIENNIAL EXHIBITION. In 1992, he was included in Between Home And Heaven, Contemporary American Landscape Photographers, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. In England, During 1994-95, Arentz exhibited at the FOX-TALBOT MUSEUM and A Positive View at the SAATCHI GALLERY. In 1996, he accepted a fellowship from THE COLUMBUS ART MUSEUM to create a portfolio of central Ohio.
In 1998, a collection of his work from continental Europe, The Grand Tour, with an essay by Tom Southall, was published by Nazraeli Press. Nazraeli published British Isles in 2003, with an introduction by William Jay. In 2010. Italy Through Another Lens was published in both English and Italian languages, with an introduction by Lucia Gillard.
In a twenty five year career, Dick Arentz has had over seventy-five one man exhibits in museums and private galleries. Since 1984 has conducted approximately fifty platinum printing workshops, included those at THE CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY, THE MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS and THE FRIENDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY.