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November 3rd the Life of an Artist and a Free Print.

11.03.2015 by Peter J. Crowley // 2 Comments

Contest is over. Spend a moment with the images and thoughts.

Since my senior year at Coventry High I have lived life as an artist, seeing, pondering, communicating with visual words and verbal images.

SCAN0100 Ss15 sat+25 Cnst60 Drk25 Westford Vt 70sEarly travels to N.Vt a friends old house. An ad in Burlington Free Press a model to create emotions. Ad read call after 10 am, at 8:30 we took the phone off the hook 75 calls and I had booked Christine [funny I can’t remember names but 42 Years later hers pops right into my head] at 5-10 with expressive eyes the session produced wonder. Image made on Kodachrome.

bw-fine-CoseyBeachAmuseisborn-definedBut before Christine the muse was born on Cosey Beach E. Haven on my daily beach walk I found this young women we talked I created. We became friends and worked together a few more times. 1971 or ’72 I realized I could mirror my soul through a muse. 

DSC_0003 S15 B-3 Drk40 Cnst+60 8-15-15The road wasn’t always smooth often feeling as old as my Beetle Bug I plugged along too often needing a mechanic [Doctor] to keep me running. The Muse sometimes a women, sometimes a flower but The Muse is me.

TheKinksRayDaviesPreludetodemonAlcohol-1-31-77-36There were some Kinks along the way Ray here doing an intro to Demon  Alcohol drinking a Heineken, “Sad memories I can’t recall.” Dance, theater performing arts the muse moved. Time, space reflections real, surreal, abstraction and identity joined the muse in the dance of youth and creation.           enjoy pjc

Photographic Art  In the late 90’s I chanced to meet The Muse at lunch mid afternoon by 10am the next morning we were in my studio for two years we worked many times. It was always magic.

 

The Contest for a free print is over.

Categories // allure, B+W Fine Art, Black and White Fine Art Photography, Color Fine Art, Coventry Ct., Digital and Film, East Haven Ct., Figures, Fine Art Photographs, Identity, Nikon, old cars, Olympia Wa., Performing Arts, Reflecting on past, Soul, Uncategorized Tags // Color Fine Art, Figure Studies, Kodachrome, Olympia, Photographic Art, Portraits, X Black and White Fine Art Photography

Me and My Doors, Early Morning Waiting for FedEx Magic

05.29.2015 by Peter J. Crowley // 3 Comments

Time on one side on the other side what life’s passed this way before. Simple images stretching the imagination, light shade contrast changes. Ten minutes with this door once a home now an office, electric company elegant mystery. 

_DSC0193 Ss30 -Cnst 40 -Blu3 -Grn1Brick Elec Door 5-20-15May 29th coffee and this blog B+W Digital also shot on film, today Fed Ex delivers a small package of FILM yes. One Hundred Eighty little 1×1.5 inches of magic. A transfusion of sight, soul creation.

_DSC0188 ss30 Drkside80 Ltdoorw 80 _2Blu -1Grn -1R 5-20-15Six or so images of this entryway but in the end it is like all my images a self portrait. This day I had B+W Film in the camera this is digital I think I shot the image above with film and maybe this as well but the last roll was in the camera and I was being very selective.  

enjoy pjc

 

Photographic Art

Categories // Artist Portrait, B+W Fine Art, B+W Portrait, Black and White Fine Art Photography, Diggie, Doorway, Layered Life, No Exit, Olympia Wa., Photographic Art, Reflecting on past

When does an Image Become Photographic Art Art

11.24.2014 by Peter J. Crowley // 5 Comments

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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.

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

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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

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