When I came to Boston it was a predominantly gray town, with the tint of sooty brick. Months of dirty snow and the cloudy skies of a northeast coastal breeze dampened its traditions, a persistently Puritan atmosphere. It was a black and white town with documentary de rigueur. While photography might yet be considered art, color remained suspect. But if Paul Simon could have his Kodachrome and a Nikon camera, so would I. Yes, those "nice bright colors" – actually much more subtle than that, qualities that the vintage Cibachrome prints I made could only marginally portray. And while the color of Ernst Haas or Pete Turner was appealing, and William Eggleston too, it wasn’t really the color I was seeing. So artistically as exploration of the “new color” began its invasion of the monotone domain, I began collecting street documents with the idea that color might additionally inform the narrative of an image.


See the color paint the light. Today's pigment printers provide new opportunities to closer follow this timeless edict of Provincetown plein air painters. Ten inks to reach the color depth of the Kodachrome palette, scans record to the limit of film grain, seemingly limitless computer control, and archival art papers bring me back to these images. I've chosen a Platine fiber paper with a surface like that of the classic modern for this series. A clean luminance with expressive neutrals, richly warm pastels, truth in earth tones, bright reds, varietal greens, shaping blues contribute to become the colors of memory.

Maria's
work pier
Mobil man
Tea Party Ship
Day's Cottages
Boston Victorian
Clam Shack
Boston Stone
Fenway Fence
North Station T
Temperence
Provincetown alley
Fenway roof
Greek Revival
Iron Man
red truck
Public Garden
30 MPH
The Kiss
twisted stalk
lamp post
North End raffle
Island Inn
Sabbaday Lake
photographer
Back of the Hill
festival pig
boat
Mike's Deli
Block Island Ferry
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Block Island Ferry
Block Island Ferry
Day's Cottages
Day's Cottages
Boston Victorian
Boston Victorian
Temperence
Temperence
Boston Stone
Boston Stone
Fenway Fence
Fenway Fence
Public Garden
Public Garden
Tea Party Ship
Tea Party Ship
red truck
red truck
lamp post
lamp post
Iron Man
Iron Man
Clam Shack
Clam Shack
North Station T
North Station T
North End raffle
North End raffle
Fenway roof
Fenway roof
30 MPH
30 MPH
work pier
work pier
twisted stalk
twisted stalk
The Kiss
The Kiss
Island Inn
Island Inn
Sabbaday Lake
Sabbaday Lake
photographer
photographer
festival pig
festival pig
boat
boat
Greek Revival
Greek Revival
Mike's Deli
Mike's Deli
Provincetown alley
Provincetown alley
Mobil man
Mobil man
Maria's
Maria's
Back of the Hill
Back of the Hill
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