Reuters’ Adam Tanner profiles Graham Nash’s digital photography printing company Nash Editions, which went into business in 1991.
Nash took to photography as a child, but didn’t share them to the public until 1990, when ex-girlfriend Joni Mitchell convinced him to share his work and connected him with a gallery.
Photo negatives of Mitchell from 1968 to 1971 were later borrowed for the production of a book, but were never returned. Left only with the contact sheet, Nash had to auction off portions of his private collection of other people’s work to purchase a printer costing $126,000. He then began printing his own own work and those of others.
Today, Nash Editions, located in Manhattan Beach, California, generates annual revenues of $1-$1.5 million, according to business partner R. Mac Holbert, who once served as tour manager for Crosby, Stills & Nash. That first printer is now displayed in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Nash Editions recently published a new book, Nash Editions: Photography and the Art of Digital Printing. (Amazon link)
See NashEditions.com for more information. The site includes a gallery of some of Nash’s work, with photographs of Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Al Cooper and others.
