The Met in NYC just had a run of displaying Avedon's murals. They had the one of Andy Warhol's Factory crew and one of military/ political figures among 1 or 2 others. If you haven't seen them, he shot groups of maybe 10 people using a large format (not sure 4x5 or 8x10) and made 3-5 frames side by side to show the whole panorama of people in each mural. Very cool stuff. The prints are maybe 8-10 feet tall, when combined in the mural each mural was maybe 20-30 feet long. Each individual print of the mural was just a free hanging print on the wall. No frame, glass, mounting, etc. I think they were just clamped at the top and hung from the ceiling or the wall. Really cool presentation.
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That’s a tough ask. Are there professional retouchers in the world who could do it? Yes? But we’re talking about people who specialize in retouching and are probably earning a few hundred dollars an hour…. Easily costing more than you spent for the shoot, likely significantly more. Most photographers don’t have that level of retouching skill. You’re asking them to basically draw their eyes shut because they don’t have a reference to copy it from. Thats a huge ask. Everybody thinks anything can be done in photoshop these days but it’s really not the case. Creating something from whole cloth is difficult. I don’t think it’s a fair ask.