Main Gallery
In order for sequences and groupings of images to be effective, the impact and implications they generate need to be greater than the sums of their parts. They ought to present visual queries or quandaries, even as they offer ideas about the relationships through shared graphic elements, tonalities, and/or subject matter. If a sequence leads us down a path to understanding, a diptych becomes a discussion between two visualizations, and a triptych, neither lineal nor dialectic, can turn out to be conceptually multi-dimensional in its affect.
- Jim Schlessinger, 2005
One travels through waypoints. They are not outside, rather we embody them and (hopefully) recognize their import, think on their meaning, and grow from the experience. They are part of our path even as we move on. - - - Jim Schlessinger, 2012
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Who can afford the price of a trip to paradise? Oh to Hell... - - - Song heard echoing among NY skyscrapers one predawn. - - - JRS, 1975
"What exactly makes a photograph art?"
"Nudity."
- Manchester Guardian, 'readers respond'
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
- Bertrand Russell
"Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden."
- Sir Walter Scott
"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
"A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity."
- Robert Doisneau
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
- Alfred North Whitehead
"Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things."
- Georgia O'Keeffe
"Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts."
- Gary Winogrand
"There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things."
- Andy Goldsworthy
"A sequence of photographs is like a cinema of stills. The time and space between photographs is filled by the beholder, first of all from himself, then from what he can read in the implications of design, the suggestions springing from treatment, and any symbolism that might grow from within the subject itself."
- Minor White
"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."
- John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
"Il faut bruler le Louvre."
- Paul Cezanne
Not a gallery per se, this series of croppings from a single file demonstrates the amount of detail that is visible in each finished work. The first image is uncropped. Crop 5 renders as less than 1 square inch of a 25 x 25 inch print.
First-rate equipment and technique - from pre-visualization to final printprocessing - make for superlative archival prints.
First-rate equipment and technique - from pre-visualization to final printprocessing - make for superlative archival prints.