Short Biography

Graham William Nash (born 2 February 1942) is an British-American singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the American folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer.

Interested in photography as a child, Nash begins to collect photographs in the 1970s. He searches for images that reveal the human condition. The sale of his massive collection in 1990 by Sotheby`s becomes a milestone in the auction market for fine-art photography.[3] Proceeds of the auction sale provide the financial means to found Nash Editions, the first ever digital fine-art printing atelier.

In the late 1980s, Nash begins to experiment with the early digital printers then becoming available through commercial printing bureaus in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Creating a true black and white print proves difficult. None of the printers are very successful although the IRIS Graphics 3047 printer shows promise because it can print on fine art papers. Nash meets programmer David Coons through friend Steve Boulter of IRIS Graphics. With image management software written by David Coons and using a custom scanner designed and assembled by David Coons, David Coons and Graham Nash develop methods to adapt the IRIS printer for the fine-arts printing of black-and-white photographs on archival-paper substrates.[4]

1989: The system that was to form the basis of Nash Editions was first tested in 1989 by Sally Larsen to produced her Transformer ink jet print series, one of which is now in the permanent collection of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. These very first IRIS prints made with David Coons` software were printed by him on one of Walt Disney Studio`s IRIS Graphics IRIS 3047 printers.

1990: Graham Nash shows his own photography at Parco Stores in Tokyo. The Parco show entitled Sunlight on Silver is a series of celebrity portraits by Nash which are reconstructed by David Coons from a proof sheet. This Parco show is the first exhibition ever of digitally produced fine art. The show travelled throughout Japan and was seen by thousands. [5]. Subsequently, Nash has exhibited his photographs at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and elsewhere.[6]

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