Black and White Figure Studies

Decades

06.22.2016 by Peter J. Crowley // 6 Comments

Each decade had it’s highs and lows never boring. My vision shaped by the sea in the 70’s a couple miles each day walking, seeing, feeling, thinking The Journey begins.

A Life in Photographic Art

1970’s Cosey Beach

1980

Akin Babatunde Rites and Reason Theater Brown Univ.

Trauma and Drama, Theater, Dance, Art and Artists many tales.

Sculpter David Hayes — **Sculptor David Hayes**

1990’s

**Silver Gelatin A Sad Pensive Muse. Seeking the Highlight finding the shadow. A muse for three years hundreds of images. The Muse is me.**

2000’s Rasminko’s in Willi

A large studio in Norwich the mill town residency tour continues. The past and present fuel Layered Life. Dance production on stage sorted re arranged to color abstracts in the studio. Teaching Whidbey Island. Amtrak life on both sides of the tracks.

2010’s

Life continues to be layered in Olympia the next chapter pulls out of the station.

enjoy pjc

Photographic Art More from 70’s

People on the Bus

12.05.2014 by Peter J. Crowley // Leave a Comment

I ride the bus here in Olympia and the people are great. This woman’s rings and stockings created a graphic study for me. I shoot a lot of sections parts of human form some drift to abstract, some just wonderful graphic compositions. October 27 my 6th day in Wa. peace pjc

Photographic Art A Silver Gelatin Figure Study.

When does an Image Become Photographic Art Art

11.24.2014 by Peter J. Crowley // 5 Comments

Dusk at The Artist Enclave in East Haddam Ct. A storm is coming. B + W silver gelatin print.

Low Key Figure silver gelatin print on warm tone paper.

When you have finished manipulation? Do you ever finish manipulation when is the piece finished? When is it Art?

Manipulation isn’t new this image is a study of a pregnant women. Shot on 35mm film at ISO 1600 to gain more grain and texture. It was then printed onto a sheet of 4×5 film giving me a positive image, then contact printed on to a 4×5 sheet of litho film [high contrast film used in the printing industry]this film sees just Black and White and adds more texture and grain. Many steps that I decided on while shooting the original negative in very contrasty studio light. When did it become Photographic Art?

What are your thoughts? When Does an image become Art? peace pjc

Photographic Art