fine art photographs by Jeff Einstein

Some photographs preserve a moment. Others preserve what the moment becomes after time and memory have their way…

MY LIFE
I began making and exhibiting fine art photographs in the late 1960s, then walked away from photography for the better part of sixty years while life took me elsewhere—as a writer, storyteller, father, and digital-media pioneer. When I returned to the camera in my eighth decade, I was no longer looking at quite the same world, or looking at it in quite the same way. Time and memory had changed the photographer.

I’ve watched a lot of water flow under my bridge. Perhaps not surprisingly, some of it flowed into my art.

MY ART
I’m less interested in landscape as scenery than in what a place can carry—memory, absence, human presence, solitude, and the accumulated evidence of time. Sometimes a person appears in the photograph; often only the trace of one remains.

The grand spectacle has its attractions, but I more often find meaning in commonplace things and quiet intervals: an empty shoreline, fading light, an aging flower, a distant figure, a landscape glimpsed through a windshield. Most lives are assembled from thousands of such incremental interludes. These are the moments that catch my eye and eventually find their way into what I call The Art of Little Things.

For more information please contact:
Jeff Einstein
718-598-3744
jeff@jeffeinsteinfineartphotography.com