Insanity

Content! I don’t Capture content.

05.04.2016 by Peter J. Crowley // Leave a Comment

A Life in Photographic Art my second book.

My friend Scot staged this for me at his and Kats wedding in June 2010. We have a running joke.

The Wedding Photographer Who needs a professional when you have AI in the palm of your hand. CONTENT. I don’t shoot content for Face Book or any other social nitwit site. But on FB there are groups of “Photographers” who’s poorly processed images arrive seconds after exposure for speed not quality is the need for plenty of cave drawing likes. Editing hell I shot 100 pictures and I will post them all quality no bother Goodnuff rules.

“In online forums the compulsion to offer an opinion whether or not one actually knows something about the subject” Premature articulation by Doug Anderson

Posting a link to an article about another Peter Crowley I was surprised? Dismayed? Amused by how many responses were made after reading the headline wondering why they didn’t know about my career in The NYC Music scene. There is more than 140 characters to a story but the story isn’t half as important as your glib response. Most likely your “I Being” was set on stun. Here I can say pretty much anything cause I am way beyond the sub prime attention span. Artificial Intelligence isn’t so smart. There is no artificial compassion unless you listen to Congress.

Kodachrome Phoenixville Ct 1979 The John Smith House.

Thirty seven years ago people made negatives created images, art. Now capturing the world around “I” on your hand held copy machine. Then post it as fast as possible for by the time the tide changes it will be washed away by more content. The really creative folks will edit in a Photo Process preset so as to be different like everyone else. Don’t take this to serious for the only real serious things are regurgitating your political preset and of course your lunch. Smile enjoy pjc

Photographic Art “I’m Obsolete”

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

Crossing with the Light

12.29.2010 by Peter J. Crowley // Leave a Comment

This from 2001, one of my four trips to Washington. 1998, 2008 by train. On this trip I taught a week long workshop on Whidbey Island at the Coupeville Art Center. Then visited my daughter in Olympia for a week. Image here made on transparency film. Transparency is a word you hear tossed around a lot. It is a talking point, mostly it is meaningless. enjoy pjc

Photographic Art the Black and White Portrait