Peter J. Crowley

Fine Art Photographer

Doors, Diners and Diversity Populates the 80’s

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My Second Book A Retrospect of Five Decades

Harry Callahan’s door Providence 1981. A friend lived next door meeting her for lunch one day she pointed out who’s door this is while I was composing this image. 

mass-diner-july-1984Diner in Massachusetts 1984 it says on the slide. Not sure as I wander deeper into the archives I may be sure. Anyone recognize this diner? The mind thinks Middletown Ct.

attleboro-may-1980Granny’s Attleboro Massachusetts May 1980. I stopped the car got out waved to the guy for consent. It was a raw day for May more like March.

 

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Photographic Art    A Weston influenced figure.

Decades

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Each decade had it’s highs and lows never boring. My vision shaped by the sea in the 70’s a couple miles each day walking, seeing, feeling, thinking The Journey begins.

A Life in Photographic Art

1970’s Cosey Beach

Cosey Beach Walk 27 19721980

Akin Babatunde Rites and Reason Theater Brown Univ. 

Trauma and Drama, Theater, Dance, Art and Artists many tales.

Sculpter David Hayes
Sculptor David Hayes

1990’s

Silver Gelatin
Silver Gelatin A Sad Pensive Muse. Seeking the Highlight finding the shadow. A muse for three years hundreds of images. The Muse is me.

2000’s Rasminko’s in Willi

bwFineArtRasminkoBooks-72-05-7-750453A large studio in Norwich the mill town residency tour continues. The past and present fuel Layered Life. Dance production on stage sorted re arranged to color abstracts in the studio.  Teaching Whidbey Island. Amtrak life on both sides of the tracks.  

2010’s

_DSC0431Life continues to be layered in Olympia the next chapter pulls out of the station.

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Photographic Art   More from 70’s

 

 

 

Too Much, of Too Little, of Too Many, of Not Enough, Projects

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Too much, keeping pace with life creating commenting moving in a direction the journey continues. Back to film the 70’s, 80’s 90’s. Swirling from age four to sixty six in a 1/250th of a second. A brief ramble through 45 years a beginning, a tease, a new book, a retrospect. Now Available Another Door Entered  a sample chapter from A Life in Photographic Art

image001 Ss15 Sat+10 Jan 1974 State Street Antiques Koda64January 1974 a cold morning stroll on State Street New Haven. It was very cold but the light was perfect a thin gray overcast sun softened by the clouds. I knew I had it one image made Kodachrome 64 and walk on to the next shot. This image had a feeling that knowing you had spoken that there was more to say. The journey will go on the moment brief lasting forever created. Forty two years later the moment this moment still feels right.

S60 Sat+10 B+10 Frozen Oak Leaf Await SpringMichael Sirak April 1973April 1973 a walk in the woods of Columbia Ct. Mike Sirak’s parents home. Frozen puddles speak of the past season shivering Mike and I wander seeing abstract color patterns seeking spring  in frozen Oak leafs.

S 15 Sat +10 Cnst +50 Providence Guitar and Banjo1982The sound track was as sweet as I will ever know as the eighties dawned in Providence in love with a women then the city. The moments, multiple moments erupting in the theater, dancing across my shutter plane. I was the moment, the muse. The fall was a devastating crash, a betrayal, a pistol… seeking a place to hide.

BacklitHorseChristmasCrd06-85-05-5Coventry back to youth, trust, safety unable to find the map the journey stalled at a rest area. Where is the muse?

NC Dance 1986The Dance of color, light, seeing returns slowly. The North Carolina Dance Theater invites me to dance the blues away. The muse visits, structure, determination, hope, life. The journey re starts. Trains, ferries, summer my daughter propel the journey forward. 

DSC_0017 S15 Sat+10 Sat Y+10 ShdHi Lgt 20 1-28-16January 2016 the station is now Olympia. The Wolf dances with the Bears the circle nears completion.

So that’s the story of my journey, seeking the highlight finding the muse. Forty Five years of visual and verbal comments on the human condition. Forty thousand images whittled down to six images and a few words here a preview, taste of my new book. Seeking a publisher investors want to be part of the journey? Email me mail@peterjcrowley.com  or just contribute here start a trend, pave the Road Between Here and There

Photographic Art               1998 North Dakota the eyes of a poet sing a song of peace