At Pivot Media, we often have clients bring in old film from their family archives for scanning. It is always a nice surprise when someone comes to us with an unusual or interesting collection of slides, such as Len Glick’s…
Sally Lemaire came to Pivot with a large collection of 35mm slides shot by her uncle, Edmund Allison. Edmund, a self taught and talented amateur photographer, spent the later part of his life photographing in and around the Pioneer Valley…
Jane Lund’s artwork ranges from surreal to super real. Her pastel work, some of which is photo realistic, will stop you in your tracks, make you look twice, and leave you spell bound. If it’s not already obvious, we are…
“Fabricated Photographs” is the term Robert Cumming uses to describe his work, which is featured in the upcoming book Robert Cumming: The Difficulties of Nonsense / published by the Aperture Foundation (available online, here). Using our camera scanning workflow we…
We began working with Eric Carle’s studio, and later the museum, in 1999, scanning 4×5 transparencies of Eric’s artwork. Since then, we have systematically digitized Eric’s entire body of work while at the same time photographing the work of numerous…
MHCAM dosen’t have a dedicated photography space, so we have more of a guerilla relationship with them. We take over their study room during college breaks and, with the full support of their staff we push through as many objects…
Our relationship with the Williams College Museum of Art began in 2005 when we photographed artwork for the “Encounter Art” project. It was an extremely successful venture that produced a book and a set of images that are still an…
Jim Gipe of Pivot Media and Stephen Petegorsky Photography reached a digital archive milestone in August of 2013 when they finished capturing the last of the permanent collection at The Smith College Museum of Art. They started the project in…
We began digitizing artwork for the MEAD Art Museum in 1999 and, over the years, have digitally photographed extensive portions of their collection. In 2008, Jim Gipe of Pivot Media and photographer Stephen Petegorsky combined forces with museum staff to…
One of the very first scans we made when we purchased our Scitex scanner in 1998 was of a badly damaged 4×5 color transparency of photographer Mark Shaw standing in front of a gray backdrop. The photo, taken in the…