Platinum/palladium Classics

Dan Burkholder created the first digital negative in 1992 using an imagesetter located in a prepress business in San Antonio, Texas. This offset printing industry machine was normally used to produce printed material such as books and advertising. Dan developed a workflow that would alter the imagesetter's tonal range, making a true photographic negative for contact printing. By releasing his methods in the book Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing, 1995, Bladed Iris Press, Burkholder shared a digital negative method that allowed photographers to combine the image editing ability of Adobe Photoshop with established darkroom methods. The results were the first digitally altered images expressed in an archival,  photographic form, the platinum/palladium print.

​Burkholder's platinum/palladium prints are vanguard prints bridging the worlds of Classic Photography and the Digital Age. Burkholder produced limited numbers of platinum prints from these original imagesetter negatives. Please contact Dan's studio directly for availability.

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Dan Burkholder platinum/palladium prints from early digital negatives
​Limited numbers available in sizes varying from 4 x 5 inches to 12 x 18 inches

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