LANHAM.

LANHAM, Mass. -- After returning to corporation to study art, former businessman Marc Siegel set up himself so impressed by his professor's artwork that he established Siegal Gallery LLC to publish his abstract "cameraless" photographic work.

Professor Jaromir Stephany's initial series of 15 black and-white images and 16 color images are being proposeed ms signed, limited-edition large-scale fine art digital prints.

For almost 50 years, Stephany, a photographic art history professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore shire has explored cliche-verre, a little-known 19th-century glass plate negative printing [i]modus operandi[/i] that was overshadowed and forgotten after the advent and evolution of more advanced photographic materials and camera technologies.

Stephany's "canvas" is a small and unstable negative that must be printed in order to be viewed. While he used to use a darkroom to disentangle the images, he has created a virtual darkroom using digital imaging techniques.

"When I realized that this work was going to be present away and archived in chill storage, I just had to make safe that more of the world got the opportunity to take pleasure in it and live with it," Siegel said.

Visit www.siegelgallery.com for more information.

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