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Frankenstein Trestle, White Mountains, 43x29 (2023) Photograph by Francois de Melogue
109.22 x 73.66cm (unframed) / 106.68 x 71.12cm (actual image size)
£587.91
Artwork description
Frankenstein Trestle, White Mountains
Francois de Melogue
2023 | Archival pigment print on professional luster fine art paper, 260gsm. | 43 x 29
The Frankenstein Trestle spans the gorge at Crawford Notch in a single deliberate arc of dark iron, its riveted beams carrying the eye from one forested wall to the other. Below, the valley floor is packed with birch and maple at the height of their season, orange and gold pressing up against the rails from every direction. The light is sharp and lateral, the kind that arrives only in October, throwing long shadows across the rusted superstructure and picking out the individual colors of each tree as though they were catalogued. The air at this elevation carries cold on it, even at midday, with the dry mineral smell of granite and the faint sweetness of fallen leaves warming in the sun.
The train moves through this without hurry. Its passenger cars, cream and green against the blaze of the hillside, diminish as they cross the center span, and for a moment the machine looks like a toy set down carefully in the middle of something enormous and indifferent. You can almost hear the low iron resonance of wheels on steel, the clank and rattle absorbed quickly by the trees. Crawford Notch does not hold sound for long. The mountains rise steeply on both sides, already going gray in the upper reaches where the foliage has given out, and the sky above the ridge is a hard, clean blue.
Available in three sizes, each signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity:
Fine Art Print 25 x 17 paper, 24 x 16 image | Limited Edition of 50 | $295
Fine Art Print 43 x 29 paper, 42 x 28 image | Limited Edition of 25 | $795
Fine Art Print 61 x 41 paper, 60 x 40 image | Limited Edition of 10 | $1,495
About the print
Each piece is made on location and printed by hand in my Vermont studio with archival pigment inks rated for over a hundred years of color stability. The 25 x 17 is printed on Premium Satin paper. The 43 x 29 and 61 x 41 are printed on Luster Photo Paper, 260gsm. Each print carries a 0.5 inch archival white border, ships rolled in a heavy tube, and arrives with a signed certificate.
About my work
I spent thirty years cooking in farm-to-table kitchens before returning to the camera. My work is held in private collections across the United States and Europe. A traveling exhibition is currently on view at The University of Vermont Medical Center and Burlington City Hall in Vermont, and my photographs were recently included in the 35th Annual Green Mountain Photography Show. I am represented in Vermont by Artisan's Gallery in Waitsfield, ArtHound in Essex, Artists in Residence in Saint Albans, The Emile Gruppe Gallery, and Remarkable Things in Stowe.
Custom sizes and framing available on request.
Materials used:
Archival pigment print on Luster Photo Paper, 260gsm. Shot on a Canon EOS R5 Mark II. Printed in studio on a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-4100 with museum-grade archival pigment inks.
Details:
- Photograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 25
- Size: 109.22 x 73.66cm (unframed) / 106.68 x 71.12cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
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Artwork description
Frankenstein Trestle, White Mountains
Francois de Melogue
2023 | Archival pigment print on professional luster fine art paper, 260gsm. | 43 x 29
The Frankenstein Trestle spans the gorge at Crawford Notch in a single deliberate arc of dark iron, its riveted beams carrying the eye from one forested wall to the other. Below, the valley floor is packed with birch and maple at the height of their season, orange and gold pressing up against the rails from every direction. The light is sharp and lateral, the kind that arrives only in October, throwing long shadows across the rusted superstructure and picking out the individual colors of each tree as though they were catalogued. The air at this elevation carries cold on it, even at midday, with the dry mineral smell of granite and the faint sweetness of fallen leaves warming in the sun.
The train moves through this without hurry. Its passenger cars, cream and green against the blaze of the hillside, diminish as they cross the center span, and for a moment the machine looks like a toy set down carefully in the middle of something enormous and indifferent. You can almost hear the low iron resonance of wheels on steel, the clank and rattle absorbed quickly by the trees. Crawford Notch does not hold sound for long. The mountains rise steeply on both sides, already going gray in the upper reaches where the foliage has given out, and the sky above the ridge is a hard, clean blue.
Available in three sizes, each signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity:
Fine Art Print 25 x 17 paper, 24 x 16 image | Limited Edition of 50 | $295
Fine Art Print 43 x 29 paper, 42 x 28 image | Limited Edition of 25 | $795
Fine Art Print 61 x 41 paper, 60 x 40 image | Limited Edition of 10 | $1,495
About the print
Each piece is made on location and printed by hand in my Vermont studio with archival pigment inks rated for over a hundred years of color stability. The 25 x 17 is printed on Premium Satin paper. The 43 x 29 and 61 x 41 are printed on Luster Photo Paper, 260gsm. Each print carries a 0.5 inch archival white border, ships rolled in a heavy tube, and arrives with a signed certificate.
About my work
I spent thirty years cooking in farm-to-table kitchens before returning to the camera. My work is held in private collections across the United States and Europe. A traveling exhibition is currently on view at The University of Vermont Medical Center and Burlington City Hall in Vermont, and my photographs were recently included in the 35th Annual Green Mountain Photography Show. I am represented in Vermont by Artisan's Gallery in Waitsfield, ArtHound in Essex, Artists in Residence in Saint Albans, The Emile Gruppe Gallery, and Remarkable Things in Stowe.
Custom sizes and framing available on request.
Materials used:
Archival pigment print on Luster Photo Paper, 260gsm. Shot on a Canon EOS R5 Mark II. Printed in studio on a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-4100 with museum-grade archival pigment inks.
Details:
- Photograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 25
- Size: 109.22 x 73.66cm (unframed) / 106.68 x 71.12cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
