“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ~William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun The gardens are lush and the air sticky with humidity, swamps are drenched in fecund fauna while mists and fog slither across valleys and mountains. Everything is languid here, the inflection of speech, the pace...
There was a time before camera phones. It was a time when a person with a camera and film could wander the streets and countryside without being suspected of nefarious motives. Pictures made during that lengthy timespan reveal much about the trust and openness of the photographed, the intentionality...
Time is of the essence. Photography’s relationship to time is multifaceted, from long and short shutter speeds to the moment a sensor or film is exposed to light. Then, interestingly, the resulting photograph takes on a life of its own. It can become an historic document or a reminder of a loved one who has passed...
In New England, March is still a winter month. But we are eager to move on. Now is when we start grasping at spring, leaning into longer daylight hours and savoring the brighter sun, escalating birdsong and declarative faith of sprouting buds. Nature’s gradual awakening prods us to seize the day and this...
We each carry memories both bitter and sweet from our childhood. The aroma of flowers from a garden, the brilliant light of a summer’s day, a sour taste, or the echoes of familiar voices influence our adult selves as the tactile reminders of an ephemeral but fundamental stage of our lives. Can we ever...
Black and white photography is celebrated for its timeless quality. It is no wonder that photographers continue to fall under the spell of its mesmerizing emotional range. As gesture and contour, texture and mood take center stage, emblems of past and present recede. Leica Gallery Boston is host to a demonstration...
We live in a nation of immigrants. Parts of my mother’s family arrived in this country before it was a country, in the 17th century. My toddler father was carried in the arms of my grandmother across the ocean to flee Europe at the start of World War II. Most U.S. citizens can relay a myriad of ancestral...
"Hope is a waking dream" ~ Aristotle February is dark and slippery. Politics, pavement, everything, seems perilous. And yet. For eons, art has transmitted light leaks of hope, whether by assuaging or provoking, guiding or diverting. If you crave paths to inspired perspectives on our raw and troubled...
The earth holds many secrets. Humanity leaves its traces and marks in the forests, the mountains, the lakes and the prairies of the world. For eons, these landscapes have shaped civilizations and now, there are signs everywhere that our industrialized civilizations are changing the landscape. Three recently...
How would you like to live and work in a giant fishbowl, relentlessly scrutinized and regularly criticized publicly? It is not surprising that most modern Presidents have hired their own photographers to help influence public perceptions of life in one of the biggest fishbowls of all, The White House....
