Galleries to see high-quality large optical prints in the US?

[Pieter12]

...some photographers would rather not print that large. Michael Kenna and Robert Adams come to mind. Why get hung up (pun maybe intended) on print size? There can be some really terrible large prints on gallery walls, the size certainly does not work to their advantage.

 

[GregY]

A little unfortunate you limit yourself to "prints bigger than 24" on the wide side. Otherwise, there are plenty important galleries that show the work of many wonderful photographers, from the past to the present. To just name two galleries that I am very familiar with: Howard Greenberg Gallery and Tom Gitterman gallery. The first quite large, with many known photographers, the second a smaller gallery but run by someone who makes no distinction between a collector or a student coming in. He gives time and his wonderful knowledge to anyone interested.

Agreed. Wherever I travel in the world, I make a point of visiting galleries exhibiting photographic prints. Size is of little interest to me. To this day, th most impressive prints I've see are those of Vittorio Sella, whose mountain work was exhibited at the Whyte Museum in Banff in 1999.

 

[Keith Tapscott.]

I remember reading that Robin Bell made an enlargement print on paper size of 30x40 inches from a 35mm negative.
It was a portrait of Mick Jagger titled 'Diamond Geezer ' because Mick has a diamond embedded in one of his teeth. I don't know what the film was.
Tri-X perhaps?
That print must be in a Gallery somewhere.