#master printers

INSIDE - FRÉDÉRIC FONTENOY (Documentary Film) France - 2017 -  25' - Direction: Thomas Goupille

An insight into the world of Frédéric Fontenoy through a photo shoot. His research with his models, his large format photography, his 1930s aesthetic and his collaboration with master printer Diamantino Quintas. In the tranquil setting of a Paris apartment, a time capsule straight out of the 1930s, three young models get ready. In the adjoining room, the photographer puts the finishing touches to a very elaborate mise en scene. Frédéric Fontenoy creates singular images, spending hours perfecting every detail...

INSIDE - FRÉDÉRIC FONTENOY (Documentary Film) France - 2017 -  25' - Direction: Thomas Goupille

An insight into the world of Frédéric Fontenoy through a photo shoot. His research with his models, his large format photography, his 1930s aesthetic and his collaboration with master printer Diamantino Quintas. In the tranquil setting of a Paris apartment, a time capsule straight out of the 1930s, three young models get ready. In the adjoining room, the photographer puts the finishing touches to a very elaborate mise en scene. Working with a large format view camera and assisted by his printer, he creates singular images, spending hours perfecting every detail.

INSIDE - FRÉDÉRIC FONTENOY (Documentary Film) France - 2017 -  25' - Direction: Thomas Goupille

An insight into the world of Frédéric Fontenoy through a photo shoot. His research with his models, his large format photography, his 1930s aesthetic and his collaboration with master printer Diamantino Quintas. In the tranquil setting of a Paris apartment, a time capsule straight out of the 1930s, three young models get ready. In the adjoining room, the photographer puts the finishing touches to a very elaborate mise en scene. Frédéric Fontenoy creates singular images, spending hours perfecting every detail...

"Au dîner des maîtres-imprimeurs," La Patrie. April 20, 1943. Page 4. --- Au diner des maîtres-imprimeurs, au Club Canadien. De gauche à droite: M. Esdras Thérien, d'Ottawa: l'hon. Oscar Drouin, ministre dans le cabinet Godbout, conférencier-invité; M. Emile Harbour, président, et M. Alfred-G. Sinel. (Photo la "Patrie"). ///

M. O. Drouin au club Canadien ---- L'honorable Oscar Drouin, ministre du commerce, de l'industrie et des affaires municipales était hier, l'hôte d'honneur au dîner des maîtres-imprimeurs de Montréal tenu au Club Canadien.

Dans une causerie à l'issue de ce diner, Thon. M. Drouin déclara "Les Canadiens", dit-il, "doivent faire en sorte d'avoir leur part dans les contrôles économiques établis par le gouvernement fédéral".

Puis le conférencier s'unit le plus sincèrement du monde à ceux qui demandent à la population de souscrire le plus possible à l'emprunt de la Victoire qui permet à ceux qui ne peuvent aller combattre d'aider à poursuivre l'effort de guerre.

M. Drouin félicita chaleureusement les membres de l'Association des maîtres-imprimeurs de Mont réal pour les beaux succès qu'il ont jusqu'ici réalisés.

Hatch Show Print in downtown Nashville is a place of magic. The concern with visual excellence in this place goes back over one hundred years to 1879, but it's overall aesthetic from floor to ceiling is in-your-face contemporary.

"Hatch Show Print," reads the shop's elegant promo flyer, "is America's oldest working poster print shop and is now the guardian of a very special corner of Americana."

I could barely contain my excitement last week upon walking into this place, alone worth the two hour trip that my brother Kevin and I made from Chattanooga to Nashville.

Upon entering you notice how every square inch of wall space is adorned with a masterpiece in poster design. Not only was I reminded of the bold artistry that the poster as medium lends itself to, I was also humbled by the way in which these masters continue to apply the obsolete method of letterpress printing to this same medium. All I gotta say is that they churn out some powerful examples of robust visual communication from this little shop.