Red & White

by Don Hamerman

Select Size

Add Custom Frame

Learn More

Shipping for frames only available within U.S.

Add Custom Frame

Learn More

Shipping for frames only available within U.S.

Add Custom Frame

Learn More

Shipping for frames only available within U.S.

Add Custom Frame

Learn More

Shipping for frames only available within U.S.

Add Custom Frame

Learn More

Shipping for frames only available within U.S.

Select size to add art to your cart

Successfully added to cart! Click here to view your cart.

Artist Statement

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.

Why We Love It

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!

Details

+ 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.

Medium:

Hahnemuhle Fine Art Baryta

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

Don Hamerman

Don Hamerman was born in New York City sometime last mid-century, and now works out of his studio in Connecticut. His baseball photographs are in numerous private and corporate collections, as well as The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and have been featured on many (many many) websites including Time Magazine’s “Lightbox,” NPR’s “Picture Show,” and DesignObserver.com where they made their “debut." His other work’s been published widely—on book covers, in magazines such as Communication Arts and New York Magazine, Fortune, Elle, ESPN the Magazine, the Japanese edition of Architectural Digest, Smithsonian Magazine, newspapers from the Wall Street Journal to... Read More
The Telegraph of London, numerous annual reports and institutional publications. When Don’s not making images of baseballs—or matchbox cars—he works as a commercial photographer.
See All Editions