Digital Imaging Pioneers

1977 "Giclee" Prints by David Husom

in 1976 while consulting with 3M on imaging products David Husom became aware of a new process called "Scanmurals" that utilized a drum scanner, mainframe computer and one of the world's first inkjet printers to produce billboard sized images on heavy fabric. At the time the only printer in the world that could do this type of imaging was located in Japan and 3M had just acquired it. He realized the potential of using it to reproduce some of his photographs at large scale and sent his color negatives there to be scanned and printed. He created three works that were exhibited the following year in a one person exhibit at Hanson-Cowles Gallery in Minneapolis. Two of the works were 5X8 feet, and one was 3.5X5.5 feet - that one now hangs in their studio. Ask to see it when you visit.

In 1984 Ann-Marie Rose was teaching graphic arts prepress at a technical college. Having access to early highend drum scanners she scanned her 8X10 black and white negatives and combined halftone film with hand coloring of print proofing materials. Works from this series were exhibited in Japan in1985.

in 1985 David started including computer imaging in his intermediate level photography courses he taught at the University of Minnesota after convincing the computer lab to buy a Thunderscan, the first scanner designed for Apple Macintosh computers.

1986 David & Ann-Marie formed Husom & Rose Photographics as a firm that would bridge the gap between photography and the graphic arts.

1989 Ann-Marie output 8X10 stochastic film from a drum scanner and enlarged the negatives to mural size on black and white photographic paper. The images were then hand colored using Marshall Oils. Works from this series were exhibited in Minneapolis in 1989 and 1990.

1990 David and Ann-Marie were among the very first to receive a new imaging program from Adobe–Photoshop 1.07. They created a tutorial on how to use the program that became one of the first items to be available for download on a new online service the following year–AOL.

1991 David was the chair of Second Generation Original: Digital Photography in the 90's conference hosted by the University of Minnesota. It was one of the first conferences in world to look at digital photography for artists and commercial photographers. He also curated the first exhibition in the Midwest of digital art and spoke on digital imaging at the Society for Photographic Education's national conference in New Orleans. That year in his own work he used a Dicomed workstation and a 4x5 film recorder to create a series of digital composites that were printed on to Fuji type R paper. The works were exhibited in Minnesota in 1991 and Arizona in 1992.

1991 Husom & Rose acquired their first scanners: a Leaf 4X5 film scanner and a Microtek flatbed. Ann-Marie started outputting her digital scans to an Iris Inkjet printer. At the time there were only a handful of service bureaus using Iris for fine art printing; she worked with a printer in Iowa. On one of her visits to the lab the owner announced: "someone has just named this process we are doing; they call it Giclee printing." The works were exhibited in Arizona and Minneapolis in 1992.

1992 Husom & Rose released Digital Photographics CD-ROM. It was not only one of the first royalty free CD's of high quality photographic images, but it was also a training resource in digital imaging and Photoshop used by colleges and schools around the world.

1995 As a consultant and trainer for Dicomed, David tested and used the first digital camera to exceed 4X5 film, the Dicomed Scanback. Today it is known as the Better Light and it is still one of the finest digital camera backs made.

1996 Husom & Rose were the first in Minnesota to acquire an Epson Stylus 800, the first color inkjet printer that rivaled photographic prints. The 800 was the first inkjet printer that used Micro Piezo technology, now the standard in all Epson inkjet printers.

1997 David and Ann-Marie received a grant from the Jerome Foundation to create a virtual tour of the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary in Northern Minnesota using digital cameras.

2002 They acquired their first wide format 44 inch Epson printer for digital printing.

2003 David appeared on Tech Talk. The Public Television program to talk about digital cameras. See video

2005 They added a second wide format Epson printer.

2007 They added a new scanner– a Scitex EverSmart Pro with an astonishing 3,175DPI true (optical) resolution for film and historic documents, photographs and images.

2008 They added a third wide format Epson printer— the 44 inch 9880.

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