Ken Allen Studios

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Our Brooklyn-based digital production company is run as an artisan-studio, with care and concern for production based on the highest standards of craftsmanship. Our clientele includes both fine art and commercial photographers and the work we produce for our artists are in the permanent collections of museums, including the Guggenheim and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In addition, KAS has provided consultation on and digitization of permanent collections as well as exhibit printing and large-format display printing for a growing list of museums, historical societies, and other institutions with photographic collections.

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MERRI CYR'S ROLLING STONES COVER

MERRI CYR’S ROLLING STONES COVER

New York-based Merri Cyr has been photographing artists and rock musicians for almost 30 years. When she came to us needing a perfect scan for a 20 year-old color negative, she knew it was going to be a tough request given the crazy stage lighting of the time and the age of the negative. It was a challenge, but we were ultimately able to achieve a good balance between the strong yellow cast and…

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Matthew Arnold @Klompching Gallery Matthew Arnold was named one of the Top 50 Emerging Photographers of 2014 by LensCulture Magazine. His most recent project, Topography Is Fate—North African Battlefields of World War II, was recently published as a monograph by Kehrer Verlag.

Kristen Capp: Absence + Evidence

Congratulations to Kristen Capp on her exhibition at S+7! She is showing 11 photographs from Namibia, where she lives and teaches, alongside a sculpture by Sara Russell Dewey and a video by Daniel Liss.

This project was a perfect example of our favorite print service, the custom print. After we worked with Kristen to choose a paper (Canson Platine in her case) we tested and evaluated each…

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Wall Murals at MCNY

Wall murals are a great way to create an environment and invite viewers into a space. Take a look at some of the recent images we have blown up for exhibits at MCNY. The graffiti murals were printed on a wallpaper material which is installed with wall paper paste while the others were printed on self adhesive vinyl.

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#MCNY #Wall Mural

Custom Portfolio Boxes

Another amazing handmade portfolio box by Stefania Giarbardo. You can see more of her work here: http://stefaniagiabardo.com

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#Portfolio

HORST: Photographer of Style, Victoria & Albert Museum, September 6 2014 – January 4, 2015

Printing from 70 year old Kodachrome 8x10 in film

Earlier this month, I had the privilege of attending the opening of Horst: Photographer of Style at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Working with Shawn Waldron*, the director of archives at Condé Nast, Ken Allen Studios printed twenty-five of Horst’s Vogue covers for the exhibit – 42×36 inch color prints.

Shawn Waldron, Sr. Director of Archives and Records, Condé Nast, New York and Ken…

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Frame before you print

When choosing the final presentation for a print, knowing the choices ahead of time will allow you to make the print on the correct material and at the ideal size for the intended presentation.

If the print will be traditionally framed, first decide how it will be framed. Will you use a window mat? Will the print be framed to the edge of the image or will it be floated in the middle of the frame?…

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#Framing #Mounting

Congratulations Aaron Rose on his exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York One of Aaron Rose's images on display at the Museum of the City of New York (

Collier Schorr, "8 Women" at 303 Gallery

Collier Schorr, “8 Women” at 303 Gallery

Collier Schorr‘s In the Collage (Marie) was singled out last year by Artspace as one of 11 Revelatory Artworks at Frieze New York (1). It was the first print in a series using our new eco-solvent printer. For her solo exhibition at 303 Gallery, nearly every image was made using a different photographic technique and printed using a different medium. Collier came to us with a particular vision for…

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Global Kids Project, charity auction

Prints exhibited at 25 Central Park West, NYC Red Roots Gallery.

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