International, award-winning Photographic Artist, ALAN HOUGHTON,
has been a photographer for over forty-five years including twenty years in Hollywood.
Hollywood was the base from which he traveled to twenty-seven countries, photographing
beautiful actresses and celebrities for newspapers and magazines. His work has garnered
three hundred (300) magazine covers, and includes such celebrities as Demi Moore,
Courteney Cox and Kim Basinger.London born, Alan has also had his
own portrait studio in Vancouver, Canada, did some acting in Rome, Italy, and was the
co-creator of an NBC television series in 1992. After regularly visiting the Hawaiian
Islands in the seventies, he became bewitched by their beauty & culture and moved to
Honolulu with his wife, Jean, where they have now lived for over a decade.
During these past years in Hawaii he has also created an award winning collection of
the Ancient Hula of which seventy-two (72) pieces hang at the ‘Kahala
Mandarin Oriental Hotel’ in Honolulu, and sixteen (16) pieces have been
acquired by the ‘Rare Collections Library’ at the University of
Hawaii.
Alan is unusual in that he is one of a dying breed of artisans. He hand makes all
of his Fine Art Photographs himself, in his own darkroom in the traditional manner and
personally signs them. But for a relaxing hobby he likes nothing more than
photographing the beautiful female nude body.
He now offers to connoisseurs and collectors of photographic art, a selection of his Classic Nudes. All of these Fine Art Photographs are
in size 16" x 20", hand-made on archival paper and guaranteed (with proper
handling) to last at least a century or more.
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Artist’s Statement
The world of photographic art today is a collector’s dream … a myriad of
subjects, styles, prices, and colors including black & white, and sepia.
The market, enhanced by the high prices of traditional art (oils, watercolors, etc.)
has escalated in the past couple of decades into a very viable concern.
Admittedly some prices have gone through the roof. $395,500.00 paid for a black &
white photograph of Georgia O’Keefe’s hands holding a needle and thimble, at
Christie’s International Auction House in very recent years. Photography is
still a young market and excellent buys are to be found.
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For example, the inspiring works of Fine Art Photographic Artist ALAN HOUGHTON.
Each and every one of his images is made in his own darkroom from the original negative,
by himself, in the old fashioned traditional manner and personally signed. Each
resulting Fine Art Photograph is as close to perfection as possible…something that is
sadly lacking with a lot of the photographs in the market today.
Alan’s art speaks for itself and will last a century or more…thereby creating
the potential to continually appreciate for decades to come.
