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Places, homes from early in my work 1972-73, 1980’S

03.04.2020 by Peter J. Crowley // 2 Comments

A tidal pool crossing Cosey Beach  Ave  1972. A daily treat to walk the beach with a friend. For a six month or so period I would step out the back door and soon be greeted by a Golden Retriever she was there for a walk. I never found out who she belonged to and she never asked to come in the house. 

Squeeze  loading in for a 80’s summer concert on Madison Green.  Madison Ct. Summers, The Wharf at The Madison Beach Hotel. Arriving there to meet Jim in early May Dewey the bartender announces Peter is here the summer has begun. 

A Radio Flyer to transfer winter warmth to the house.

Cosey Beach wasn’t glitzy the waterfront cottages were nicer. The neighborhood was poor. Strife between the city and the neighborhood after the city sold the playground to a restaurant. I found this all out the 2nd night I lived there. The 4th of July Independence Day  and the streets were full of people expressing there anger in no uncertain terms. 

Stony Creek and Kodachrome a short ride made often for peace, wandering, seeing. I would return here through out my years in Ct. I rarely returned to Cosey Beach Ave. It became a destination as I rushed to get myself ready to move west.  So many places, people to see that Brattleboro and Cosey beach were left out. 

peace pjc 

Categories // B+W Fine Art, B+W Silver Gelatin, Cica 1972, Color Fine Art, East Haven Ct., Film 35mm, Humanity, Kodachrome, Old Roads, Summer, The Sea, Wooden Boat Tags // B+W Fine Art Photography, Color Fine Art, Humanity, Silver Gelatin, Simplicity

Willimantic Norwich Mill Towns. From ’94-’14

01.09.2020 by Peter J. Crowley // 2 Comments

Just a few from a past life I have visited in the last couple weeks. TriX 

Perhaps my most loved image from Willi Three Doors, all open many roads before me adventures unfolding.  Whidbey  Island  Wa. Teach  Photographic Philosophy. ArtSpace Norwich  2001  a studio  a new  mill town  to wander and create. An Art community gallery shows many friends. A theater across the street, an award. Writing a column on Nikonians about seeing, using your camera not being used by your camera manual images made in your mind understanding of creative process.  

The Balloon Festival an antique auto show. I see graphic studies of light be it an old car or a nude. “All anyone ever photographs is light the subject merely a vehicle to transform the light into emotion.” A mantra that I live by today. In the mid nineties as AI had griped the film camera industry Auto Everything. Still through my column, speaking to Photo Clubs tutoring Studio workshops in Norwich many embraced the idea of thinking. 
Arnold cutting stone from “a lazy sculptor’s work.” There was never enough time to be sipping tea or working on a documentation. He gave me this piece created from my photo. “I’d rather work from Peter’s Photographs then a a live model.” He told Claudia laughing as only Arnold could. ” The models always talk too much and have to go pee” His images allow me to see the front, back, sides at the same time.” Trips to the Port of Galilee he would sketch, I’d make color photos his easel “you are much easier and fun then lugging all the paints. At home he would use my photos and his sketches to paint from. 

 

peace pjc

Categories // A Life in Photographic Art, Artist Portrait, B+W Portrait, Humanity, Norwich Ct, Uncategorized, Willimantic Tags // B+W Fine Art Photography, Humanity, Simplicity

May Twenty Fifth 2001 Around My Neighborhood

07.09.2017 by Peter J. Crowley // 6 Comments

2001 a very creative year feeling at home in Norwich a stroll with bricks, texture,  humanity. B+W HP5 warmed here with a touch of sepia, warm the way I felt this May day a couple months into my new residence.

Restoration or rubble the fate of  The Wauregan was the downtown lightning rod.

The Golden Hour on Main.

An empty building on Franklin I would walk by on the way to Delia’s or KCs. I rarely didn’t stop to look my imagination seeing past life’s. What did time do to empty this granite foundation? 

Chestnut St. just beyond ArtSpace the repetition is all about the light. But isn’t everything about the light.

A bit of Layered Life on Franklin.

Art? Are documentary images art? It depends on what you put in the image, not composition or cropping but emotion yourself . Were you there in a fleeting moment seeing subjects on to the next shot seeking cool. Or were you there in the moment looking inward putting yourself into the emotion seeing beyond subjects to soul.

peace pjc

More home images.

Categories // Abandoned., B+W Silver Gelatin, Documentary, Humanity, Lamposts, Layered Life, Norwich Ct, Sepia Tags // Ambiance, B+W Fine Art Photography, Humanity, Layered Life, Street Photography

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