“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” – Oscar Wilde Experience the last two bodies of work by David Prifti at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA through March2, 2014. For directions and hours, go to: http://www.griffinmuseum.org/blog/griffin-main-gallery/
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray See the remarkable last works of photographer David Prifti at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA through March 2, 2014.
“What begins with an attention to the physical appearance of the subject, develops into an evolving exploration of the sitter and myself. The process is slow and labor intensive. Making these portraits requires exposure times ranging from 20 seconds to 2 minutes. It is in that collaboration that...
“David had long been fascinated by trees, and especially those with exposed roots, showing how tenuous life’s hold on survival is. He built a darkroom that he could load onto a skiff and, wearing a set of waders I’d bought him at a garage sale, would walk and canoe the river, tugging along the skiff...
“Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity… I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.” – Sally Mann
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ” ― John Ruskin
“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” ― Marc Riboud, French Photographer, Magnum Photos
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” ― Robert Frank
“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.” ― Keith Haring
