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Yellow Pileup

  • $85.00

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Add Custom Frame

SHIPPING FOR FRAMES ONLY AVAILABLE WITHIN U.S.

Add Custom Frame

SHIPPING FOR FRAMES ONLY AVAILABLE WITHIN U.S.

Add Custom Frame

SHIPPING FOR FRAMES ONLY AVAILABLE WITHIN U.S.

Add Custom Frame

SHIPPING FOR FRAMES ONLY AVAILABLE WITHIN U.S.

Much like the baseballs at which I've pointed my camera in the past, these old matchbox toys occupy the category of humble, overlooked objects saturated with memories, beauty as well as a dash of childhood innocence. They were unearthed not from old ball fields, not from my personal collection (I owned none), but instead from the world's virtual junk drawer: eBay. When encountered as finished prints, it's hard to believe that the vehicles themselves are tiny, about two to three inches long; at larger sizes they become monumental, iconic, even majestic in their battered state. "Back in the day," batteries weren't required for amusement, just a sandbox and a fertile imagination.

Like the other matchbox car portraits in our Hamerman collection, Red & White and Yellow Pileup are set against solid backgrounds in corresponding colors. It gives the mini automobiles a regal air, their environment transformed to suit them. These saturated stunners put the well-worn and mundane on a pedestal, as is also the case with Hamerman’s baseball series. In turning his camera to old school odds & ends of amusement, he pays homage to the past and the unassuming, easy, ephemeral joys that are so often used up and forgotten ... Read more on the blog!

+ Limited-edition, exclusive to 20x200
+ Museum quality: archival inks, 100% cotton rag paper unless noted
+ Signed + numbered certificate of authenticity included
+ Directly supports the artist
+ Handcrafted custom-framing is available

Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists’ originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing.

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Edition Structure:
10"x8" | edition of 10
14"x11" | edition of 200
20"x16" | edition of 50
30"x24" | edition of 10
40"x30" | edition of 2