The Doors by Art Kane
The Doors by Art Kane
The Doors, taken in 1968 by Art Kane
The band shot that accompanied the Jim Morrison TV/Xray portrait in Life Magazine’s April 1968 ‘The New Rock’ photo essay. This photograph is an Art Kane ‘sandwich’ image, a technique Kane pioneered in which he layered 35mm transparencies for enhanced story telling and to invest his images with metaphor. in this case, layering the image of The Doors seated in a hallway of the Chateau Marmot with a secondary image of the sun over the Pacific ocean.
Interestingly, this image was was created several months before the release of their hit album ‘Waiting for the Sun’.
Art Kane fine art print details
Limited edition, fine art prints of Art Kane photographs are created from Kane's original negatives and transparencies and have been scanned on a high performance Heidelberg drum scanner with a maximum optical resolution of 19,200 dpi. The Digital C-Type photograph is made by LI Digital Inc., NYC, a specialist in fine art photographic printing. The 16” x 20” and larger sizes are made on an Epson Fine Art Printer using Epson Premium Luster Archival Photo Paper. The photographs include an official Art Kane Estate document that is stamped, dated, edition numbered, and countersigned for authenticity by Jonathan Kane, Art Kane's son and Director of the Art Kane Archive. The document is created on archival crack and peel paper and can be placed on the verso of the image, or on the back of the frame at the client's discretion
Available in two sizes, 16x20” - edition 25 and 30x40” - edition 4
Framed or unframed. Museum grade framing features non-glare museum glass, and Standard framing features UV protected Conservation Clear glass.
