HISTORY:

David Adamson is a Tamarind certified Master Printer. He started Adamson Editions in 1979 as a lithography studio. In 1993 David bought his first Iris 3047 printer and became one of the first digital ateliers in the country. Since then the studio has grown and expanded several times. The staff now includes David, John, Wade, and Bryan. We currently utilize both the roll or sheet fed Epson 9600 & 9800 large format, pigmented inkjet printers. Adamson Editions has collaborated with some of the most interesting and influential artists working today and our prints hang in many private and public museums and collections. Some of the artists we have worked with are: Renata Aller, Tom Baril, Ross Bleckner, Bill Brandt Archive, Joel Brodsky, David Byrne, Colby Caldwell, Harry Callahan, William Christenberry, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Janet Fish, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Adam Fuss, Tim Hailand, Lyle Ashton Harris, Gottfried Helnwein, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, James Huckenpahler, Amy Lamb, Inez van Lamsweerde, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Longo, Bill Newman, Frank Noelker, Mike O’Neill, Jack Pierson, Robert Rauschenberg, Lou Reed, Mick Rock, Victor Schrager, Kiki Smith, Mike and Doug Starn, Donald Sultan, Fred Tomaselli, Bruce Weber, William Wegman & Jamie Wyeth.

January 2006

The Atelier Adamson book is featured in the Reading Room section of the February 2006 issue of Oprah's O magazine.

We still have several copies of the book available for sale at Adamson Gallery here in DC or you can order them online from Amazon and Steidl. The link to Steidl allows you to view several of the spreads.


Victor Schrager has a new show of prints produced at the studio, entitled Composition as Explanation: Pigment Prints January 19 - March 4, 2006 at Edwynn Houk Gallery.


Musician and artist Lou Reed worked here in the studio recently to produce the prints that will be in two simultaneous exhibitions called Lou Reed: New York at Steven Kasher Gallery and The Gallery at Hermes between January 20 and February 25, 2006.


The studio just completed twenty pigment prints by Robert Longo. These prints are from the slides used to produce his well known series of drawings called Men in the Cities. Adamson Editions is publishing them as well. Click on the image to view them.


Adamson Editions has realeased six new pigment print editions by Chuck Close. They are three portraits and three nudes all from Daguerreotypes of supermodel Kate Moss. Click on the image to view them.