Chapter 1 - Introduction
Thomas Teich brings his personal artistic relationship with the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains, New England and the Hudson River to you directly through his award winning photographs. Share his passion for the beauty of North America's original wild landscape and support our friends who help all of us in the effort to survive man's appetite for the destruction of wilderness. For over forty years Tom has been preserving on film the wild and quiet places of the natural world quickly disappearing before us.
Tom creates black and white one-of-a-kind limited edition silver gelatin images with large and ultra-large format view cameras. He personally hand prints every Black & White Photograph in his 1,200 square foot Darkroom custom built in upstate New York. Tom uses modern wet darkroom technology in the tradition of Ansel Adams to create gelatin silver prints on fine art Ilford museum grade fiber base paper. They are privately collected for personal and corporate art collections throughout the U.S.
Tom's color landscapes, also made with large-format cameras, have been featured in many exhibitions and on the covers of national and regional magazines and books and in award-winning calendars and PBS films. They are only available as large fine art giclée exhibition quality prints by special request. A large selection of giclée and silver prints are available for personal viewing in Tom's 700 square foot gallery adjoining the darkroom.
Shown here for the first time is a selection of abstract black and white images that are a bit of a departure from Tom’s normal landscape work. Ice Abstract Images are extreme closeups of tiny natural ice formations created by the perfect combination of cold air and rapidly declining water levels. Made with an 8×10 camera in a stream near Tom’s studio, these amazing images were photographed as ice froze and then typically melted only hours later. Carbon Emulsion Abstract Images are made in the darkroom chemically without a camera. 8×10 inch clean glass plates are coated with a micro emulsion of carbon then carefully treated with a variety of solvents, brushes and other tools to make Carbon Emulsion Glass plate Negatives. They are then loaded into an 8×10 enlarger and printed on gelatin silver paper. The Digital Abstract Images were made of natural ice formations captured with a digital camera and are meant for internet viewing only.