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IMAGE IMAGE offers services of still photography, digital resources, and filming to serve an international community of photographers, artists and filmmakers.

IMAGE fosters an environment that is committed to actively create, assist and satisfy photographic and pictorial needs through its commitment to superior service. It provides a unique environment for photographic creativity, experimentation and artistic exchange. Its facilities offer still photography, digital resources, and filming to serve an international community of photographers, artists and

filmmakers, catering also to collectors, museums and institutional archives. We also provide for exhibitions and special events. IMAGE specializes in creating high-quality fine art prints by using centuries-old methods of archival processing. Portraits are printed on high-quality fiber-based paper using exactly the same process and formulas as in a professional portrait studio of the early 1900s. Services include high resolution black & white duplicate negatives of heritage collections, backup copies of important photographic and art collections rendered in the tones of the original image, product imagery for commercial purposes, and high-quality digital copies. IMAGE offers a unique photographic process reminiscent of rare and beautiful vintage portraiture, creating a quality archival photo-portrait. Formal, playful or serious, the images emerge with luscious and complex patinas rendered in rare, evocative tones, incorporating the complexion of stylized 19th and early 20th Century portraiture. The printing process features high-quality true silver gelatin resin coated and fiber papers processed in liquid chemistry, neutral to cool image tone with excellent sharpness and contrast, to archival standards. The end result is an image that withstands the wear and tear of urban pollution, weather and a host of other causes of deterioration. We offer selenium and sepia toning on both resin coated and fiber prints to alter the image tone and enhance the archival life of the print. We offer complete and correct film processing with quality, fresh traditional chemistry, insuring archival permanence and strengthening of values. All lab work is done by hand and with great care. IMAGE will be rented to qualified users. The photography studios can be used for portraiture, fashion, advertising, music videos, documentaries, animation, exhibitions and special events. Each studio space is 600 square feet. Makeup and wardrobe rooms, a kitchen and lounge are included in the rental. Basic lighting & grip equipment such as incandescent halogen & led lights, C-stands, light stands, sand bags, extension cords, flags, silks, umbrellas and reflectors are provided at no extra cost. We offer a lab & darkroom for hand-processing film and high-quality printing. Our enlargers are well-maintained with superb lenses that can enlarge small, medium or large format negatives. We take exceptional pride in furnishing quality traditional chemicals that are prepared fresh each day. Workstations for print presentation include Seal commercial dry mount presses and Logan mat cutters. Wi-Fi workstations include Windows and Apple operating systems with Photoshop and film editing programs.

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83 actors and actresses grace the pages of Director/Photographer Steve Carver's new book, "WESTERN PORTRAITS The Unsung Heroes & Villains of the Silver Scree...

Announcing the publication of Western Portraits: The Unsung Heroes & Villains of the Silver ScreenPhotographer & Author:...
10/01/2019

Announcing the publication of Western Portraits: The Unsung Heroes & Villains of the Silver Screen

Photographer & Author: Steve Carver
Co-Author: C. Courtney Joyner
Editor: Stephen B. Armstrong

Coming November 1, 2019 from Edition Olms

In addition to the photographs of great character actors that were created at IMAGE Studios, Lab & Darkroom, Western Portraits: The Unsung Heroes & Villains of the Silver Screen includes individual essays composed by film historian C. Courtney Joyner about their careers, their movies and their television work. The book opens with a foreword by the great filmmaker Roger Corman and features a preface by accomplished photographer Kim Weston, who writes about photography and Steve’s photographs. The book also features an introduction by Steve Carver about how the book began, and a readable history of Western movies that considers the great contributions character actors made to the genre, as well.

Edition Olms has listed Western Portraits: The Unsung Heroes & Villains of the Silver Screen on Amazon and its distributor’s website. You can find the listings here:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Western-Portraits-Unsung-Heroes-Villains/dp/3283012903

https://www.edition-olms.com/buecher/western-portraits-of-great-character-actors/

Western Portraits: The Unsung Heroes & Villains of the Silver Screen will be the subject of a forthcoming episode of the YouTube web series A WORD ON WESTERNS, www.youtube.com/user/AlgonquinCowboy, which will be filmed live at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles. The show’s host, Rob Word, will interview Steve Carver and C. Courtney Joyner and others connected to the project, including many of the actors who posed for the book, and you’ll hear behind the scenes Western film stories. Plus, you can bring a book or pick up one at the museum store and have it autographed. You won’t want to miss this celebration!
Information about this exciting event is included below. Admission, by the way, is free.

A WORD ON WESTERNS
Western Portraits: The Unsung Heroes and Villains of the Silver Screen at the Autry Museum of the American West
Wells Fargo Theater, 47000 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027
https://theautry.org/visit/maps-and-directions

November 19, 2019
11 am – 1 pm

“After returning to Los Angeles, I decided to take a break from directing and turned my attention to a different kind of...
09/26/2019

“After returning to Los Angeles, I decided to take a break from directing and turned my attention to a different kind of creative enterprise, establishing a photography lab in Venice Beach, which I called The Darkroom. For five years, I held the distinction of being the sole owner, operator, technician, educator and photographer, laboring to support the facility….

The Darkroom gained popularity and attracted a core group of accomplished photographers, conservators, private collectors, archivists and museum curators. Although at the outset the business was a work quest, my experimentation on the side generated a personal collection, a series of formal portraits, tests, playful exercises and serious works of art. I constructed small set pieces in the lab and asked friends to come over and sit for portraits. Often late at night I would stand in front of The Darkroom and persuade an occasional passerby or homeless person to come in and let me photograph him or her. When that became tedious, Sundays turned into party nights with food and drink—and a set.

As a portraitist, I began creating sensuous, even moody, studies that I regarded at the time as being among my highest artistic achievements. My portraiture served as an expressive and diverse cultural document, chronicling life and history while conveying the emotional, psychological and spiritual dimensions of the subjects. In short, I was rendering something more than likenesses as I worked.”

—Excerpt INTRODUCTION Spirit and Grit: How this Book Came to Be by Steve Carver
Western Portraits of Great Character Actors: The Unsung Heroes & Villains of the Silver Screen

Pre-order Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Western-Portraits-Unsung-Heroes-Villains/dp/3283012903

https://www.edition-olms.com/buecher/western-portraits-of-great-character-actors/

The American West, as we know it, is defined by the movies, and the Western is the oldest film genre. When the movies were born, it was not that long after Promontory Point and the Civil War, so those memories were still there in the minds of the very first movie audiences as they watched The Gre...

Western Portraits of Great Character Actors:The Unsung Heroes & Villains of the Silver ScreenAcknowledgments:I’m sincere...
09/23/2019

Western Portraits of Great Character Actors:
The Unsung Heroes & Villains of the Silver Screen

Acknowledgments:

I’m sincerely grateful for the enlightened support of a number of individuals and their commitment to this portrait collection, most especially the crew, who passionately worked to bring this book to fruition:

Robert Zinner, master wardrobe, armorer, props & artifacts
Poppy Ruiz, project coordinator
Randy Lalaian, set builder & special effects
Carol Hills, set builder & dresser
Linda Sixfeathers, hair & makeup artist
Robert Burkinshaw, antiques dealer
Cody Merrick, production assistant
Danny Chuchian, set builder & special effects
Tami Orloff, stylist
Denise Chuchian-Ocampo, hairstylist
Paula June Cantu, makeup artist
Lance Todd, set dresser
Max Aria, set photographer

This book project owes much to the support and assistance of Maxine Hansen, The Autry Museum of the American West, Roger Corman, Dusan Stulik, Ph.D., Gary P. Carver, Ph.D., Darlene T. Carver, Gina & Kim Weston, Gray Frederickson, Bill & Walt Olsen, Henry Parke, Gregory Gast, Terry “Slim” Callahan, Andrea Thompson, Judy Diamond, Terry Later, James Craigmiles, Chanel Capra, Alicia Allain, Orien Richman, Juan Bastos, Nancy DeNicola, Raymond Rahimzadeh, Diana Anderson, Rosemary & Thomas Warkentin, Bill Reinhart, Aaron Carver, Philip Fagan, Russell Dodson, Ron Shipp, Andres TaTa Carranza, Christy & Paul Haines, Peter Alexander, Jack Gelnak, Marlon Marcelo, JC O’Neal, Chris Kriesa, Ray Galindo, Gerardo Perez, Rina Cueva, Andy Marx, Patricia Clements, Inga Binga, Spencer Canon, Steve Stafford and Indiana.

Inestimable thanks to Rob Word, producer and Western historian, Al Frisch, Hollywood authority on movie costumes and guns, and Phil Spangenberger, True West’s Fi****ms Editor and producer of Wild West shows.

Finally, the diligent interns: Jake Schmidt, Jincy Brown Jennings, Claire Reedy, Alyssa Valencia and Madison Nenkervis.

Pre-order Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Western-Portraits-Unsung-Heroes-Villains/dp/3283012903

https://www.edition-olms.com/buecher/western-portraits-of-great-character-actors/

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