Original Signed Thorsten Overgaard Print:

"Boy in Paris Restaurant"

2013

Signed recto (rigth hand corner).
Title and info on back.
Archival Pigment Print. 

Available in:

4 x 6 inch print on 5.5 x 8.5 paper

6 x 9 inch print on 8.5 x 11 inch paper

11 x 17 inch print on 13 x 19 inch paper

13 x 20 inch print on 17 x 22 inch paper

48 x 70 inch aluboard print (to edge)

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The story
behind that picture
"Boy in Paris Restaurant"

By Thorsten von Overgaard

"April in Paris" sounds great, but usually it is raining in April, and May is the best month to be in Paris.

This was a rainy April day in Paris. I went to have lunch at the restaurant La Pizzeria d'Auteuil on 81 Rue Jean de la Fontaine, a few minutes walk down from my apartment on Rue Leconte de Lisle.

I had my Leica M Monochrom and my good ol' trusted friend, the Leica 50mm Summicron-M f/2.0 lens from 1956 that I dropped at the table and ordered a coffee and some lunch.

Next table was a Parisian family having lunch as well. At one point the boy, bored on a rainy Sunday, looked out the window and into the street. I framed him, too two photos of him, and in that moment he paid attention for a moment, which was the third and final photo I did.

My Largest Prints

A 72" print on aluboad being mounted in Singapore.

The 72" Aluboard Print is an Art Statement. Here being mounted in the Leica Galerie Salzburg.

My Largest Prints - The 72" Aluboard Print is an Art Statement

My largest prints are usually five to six feet tall (72 inches/180cm); "stand-alone prints" made on glossy photo paper (c-print) that is laminated on 3mm aluboard aluminum plates (also known as “The Rolls Royce of photo printing”). The aluboard has mountings and distance bricks on the back, so they are ready to hang with just two screws on the wall. It's a format that doesn't require a frame, and it just floats half an inch or so from the wall. I like this type of photo because it's impressive, it's a statement, and the photo dominates and sets the tone for the room, hallway or space it hangs in.

Exhibition prints

The Salzburg Collection is a series of 68 prints from the Leica Galerie Salzburg exhibition.

Raffles-Collection Singapore is a series of large 72" prints from the exhibition "I Am Here" .

My smallest size print here, shown the way I usually have prints framed.

My smallest prints are 4 x 6 inches

Sometimes I just want to have a photo because I like it. I am not trying to fill a space on a wall, and I am not running a gallery or a museum. In fact, I am not even a collector. I am just gathering things I like; which is original art that is personalized by the artist (usually signed and/or given to me as a gift). In my home I have prints of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Stanley Cubrick, Peter Turnley, Jan Grarup, Paul Wolff, Helmut Newton and many others. Many of them are relatively small prints that can fit on a relatively small wall section, as an integrated part of my home. I made this "junior collector size" of 4.25 x 5.5 inches available because it gives many people the possibility to have one or more of my photos at a very reasonable price, and it happens to be a size I like myself. They can even stand on a desktop, and I think they are awesome.