Peter J. Crowley

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Recent downtown strolls

09.09.2011 by Peter J. Crowley // 4 Comments


Signs and Shadows where I live and influences.


Neon sign and Franklin Square.

Mixed messages! New work and identity crisis.

Influenced by Walker Evans who’s work during the depression documented humanity often photographing signs. I had the privilege of meeting him at Yale as I was there doing a photo essay on him having two retrospects open at the same time in NYC and New Haven.  I am told that he embraced the new technology of the SX 70 and the instant pictures it provided. All images in post are digital a way of shooting I have hardly embraced. The first image is ArtSpace sign where I live but it s hung over a painted sign of a past owner. I like to play with reflections that give a sense of different times. The second image Piercings does this a little as you can see the old Newbury clock in the reflection dating back fifty or sixty years. Image three is one of mixed messages. A self portrait of me using digital because after a four month hospital stay I am left with not enough money to rent the lab and not enough energy to work in darkroom. My love is Black and White film. Time and finances will tell if I ever embrace digital or recover enough to stand in the dark for a few hours?  Those who have donated to keep me going  I thank from the bottom of my heart.  If you would like to donate there is a button on the upper right of the page any amount is welcome. I’m told you have to put in amount in first window. Thanks                                     enjoy pjc

Walker Evans show opening October First at the Florence Griswold Museum

Categories // Art, Between Here and There, Color Fine Art, Community, Documentary, Gallery Shows, Identity, Insanity, Late light, Layered Life, Norwich Ct, Past life's, Small Business

Doorways

01.18.2011 by Peter J. Crowley // 3 Comments


Entryways, old roads traveled once more. An early portfolio revisited on an autumn afternoon. I’ve been fascinated from my earliest exposure and before with what lies behind the door? Another world [one for you who know me this door is one I didn’t often take] visual stories of what is on the other side. Simplicity inviting you to create memories or fantasies. This Barbershop on main Street Manchester Connecticut. As a youth old enough to know about girls we’d go to Manchester for a movie, but really to stroll Main St. and see the “City Girls” for we were from Coventry a little farm town/bedroom community 15 or so miles east. Now across the street from the barber shop my friend Carl lives in elderly housing a converted elementary school. We still stroll main St. slower but still looking at the girls seeing how much has changed yet how everything is the same. The sweet allure of memory awakened by the simplicity of the image of the just right light transporting us between here and there.

enjoy pjc

Photographic Art

Categories // Adventure, Autumn, Between Here and There, Beyond the surface, Childhood, Coffee, Color Fine Art, Community, Coventry Ct., Doorway, Eyes, Faces, Fall, Film 35mm, Fine Art, Full Frame, Identity, Journeys between here and there, Late light, Manchester, Past life's, Photographic Art, reality, Reminisces, Simplicity, Texture, The City as a Muse, The Past, The Present Tags // Blending the past and the present, Color Fine Art, Giclee, Humanity, Photographic Art, Small Business

Paradise Ally

07.13.2010 by Peter J. Crowley // 4 Comments

Paradise Ally

A moment in dark,
brings a moment in light,
from cold to warm,
with a street light,
a moment in time,
a moment in light.

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Silver Gelatin Portraits or Giclee for color

Photographic Art

Categories // Abstract, allure, Character, Color Fine Art, Colorful Mind, Community, Film 35mm, Fine Art Photographs, Life, My Transparent Life, Photographic Art, Poem, Poetry, Poets, Reflections, Seasons, Significance Tags // Ambiance, Color Fine Art, Giclee, Photographic Art

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