“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.” ― Kurt Vonnegut 555 Gallery in South Boston is now playing host to the universe. “Under Astral Skies”, a collection of spectacular photographs with wild and wonderful spins on space by Jim Nickelson, Amy Friend, Christopher Wright...
“Some speak of a return to nature. I wonder where they could have been.” – Frederick Sommer Feature Image: “He Asked Me To Name Him, Red Bear, 2014” archival pigment print from the series Ghost Stepping by Molly Lamb (courtesy of the artist). Now at the Griffin Museum Winter...
“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.” ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi You wouldn’t want that dire fate, would you? Then perhaps you’ll consider...
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou Feature photo: Singer Marian Anderson by Richard Avedon
“The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose...
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” ― Albert Einstein Molly Lamb ponders the mysteries of life through an exploration of personal and symbolic fragments from home and the surrounding...
“If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it’s as though I’ve neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.” ― Richard Avedon Richard Avedon’s iconic portraits of the famous and the infamous, the familiar...
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” ― Gabriel García Márquez See the solo exhibit by Rafael Soldi in the Atelier Gallery at the Griffin Museum of Photography opening tomorrow – July 10, 2014!: http://www.griffinmuseum.org/blog/griffin-atelier-gallery/...
“And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves may be exterminated, will be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.” ― Winston Churchill Feature...
“At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.” ― J.K. Rowling In light...
