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Studio Photos

12.12.2019 by Peter J. Crowley // Leave a Comment

Bolton Lake Ct. the 80’sWillimantic Ct. 1996 a very productive period. 

The Muse a chance meeting in Paradise at lunch. Next morning the Studio on Bellevue and years of sessions. Hundreds  of images many never printed or scanned. Reaching into my 80th decade they may be lost. 

Working with a single person repeatedly you may think is repetitious boring. But no way each session was new with wonderful moments each a highlight. Thoughts about our work, hers and mine.  

Here a test with Ilford SFX a film that can feel like IR but more controllable in exposure and process.

Here I show studio work with women, motion emotion, eyes. I’m asked why no men? Seinfeld said men’s bodies are utilitarian but that isn’t it at all men’s walls are thick rarely are their souls within reach. Women have been celebrated throughout time in art. Yes there was David but in my life he is almost impossible to find and I wonder if Leonardo worked with a camera what would David’s eyes say. 

peace pjc 

Categories // A Life in Photographic Art, Black and White Fine Art, Emotion, Eyes, Figures, Models, Motion, Norwich Ct, Simplicity, Willimantic Tags // B+W Fine Art Photography, Color Fine Art, Figure Studies, Simplicity

The Art World, Today and Yesterday Forty Years of Observation

08.20.2017 by Peter J. Crowley // 3 Comments

In the seventies models paid photographers for sessions now everyone is a photographer and everyone is a “model” and “models” are paid by GWCs. Boobies for bucks.  A chuckle to start but truth is funnier than fiction.

Everybody is an artist. I noticed a shift in NPO grants in the late nineties community involvement. Turn of the century and the digital camera is now cheap enough for everyone. A few hundred dollars some software and how to make a © and you are a pro. Many understand when Walmart moves in small businesses are deleted. The informed local merchants, neighbors, friends replaced by cheap and goodnuff.  But the sudden modes and preset pros do not see the connection to Smugmug and other sites selling their technically goodnuff images for Walmart prices. Or giving them away for the glorious ego of publication.  The market crowded with emotional free cheap copies of the world. This trend of A.I. and creative choices moves over to graphic design my Asst Molly wanting to take a few GD classes at a local college was told by admission counselor  just get Photo Shop and you are all set. No need for concept or emotion just an app. There is no A.E. Artificial Emotion except in congress.

Contests, Juries and Vanity Galleries.

A contest I entered for Norwich Tourism/Revitalization “Picturing Norwich.”  Awarded Best in Show and little chance of being sold for tourism.

The concept of the contest. In Norwich a bank decided to put out a calendar so they had a contest. For a mere $25 you could enter as long as you released your rights of the image to the bank and all of their agents. So a thousand entries and the bank has a calendar, a tidy sum of cash and  photos to use for future advertisements. If the bank is really lucky their agent may find another buyer and sell their [formally you image] for profit. The Vanity Gallery rent the walls and the gallery is paid so they don’t need to do much promotion and everyone can have an exhibit. The juried show and fundraisers for the community where you have the privilege of giving your work away. I have done some of these I have also convinced organizations that a 50/50 sale is more fair. Artists are mostly poor here the artist and the organization split the sale. This way the quality of art will be better.

Painting with a broad stroke here and for forty plus years. There is more to the Art World and life than instant gratification or you last text message. Last a professional artist pays taxes on sales it’s good for the community.

peace pjc

 

Choice thoughts on creating from 2009 

Categories // Art, Artificial Intelligience, Buy Local, Choice, Creativity, Creativity or photography by numbers., Emotion, Small Business Tags // Humanity, Olympia, Small Business

Portraits without People

06.08.2017 by Peter J. Crowley // 3 Comments

Walker Evans work on the FSA project had many images of sharecroppers homes. Interiors, portraits of the people without the person. The photos created a strong emotional bond to the culture and life of the persons home and self.  I have always been inspired by Walker having met him in the 70’s. I try and create images that speak of the person what they value and save. Who they are.

Layers

Life

  A Pixel becomes a person.

peace pjc

Photographic Art Identity

Categories // A Life in Photographic Art, B+W Fine Art, Emotion, Fine Art Photographs, Olympia Wa., Passionate Observer, People, Soul, Washington Tags // B+W Fine Art Photography, Blending the past and the present, Color Fine Art, Humanity, Photographic Art, Portraits

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