fine art photographs by Jeff Einstein

Sometimes a photograph begins to feel less like a record of a place than a memory of how the place felt. I’m drawn to moments when light, weather, color and stillness transform familiar landscapes into something more painterly—without asking them to become anything other than what they were.

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MY LIFE
My earliest experiments with fine art photography were exhibited in San Francisco Bay Area galleries and public spaces in the late 1960s. Fade out, fade in: after decades spent writing, working in digital media, and living several other lives in between, I returned seriously to photography in my eighth decade.

What surprised me was how quickly the old fascinations and muscle memories returned—the pleasure of watching light change a landscape, of finding order inside visual chaos, the tactile moment of camera in-hand, and of recognizing the brief instant when an ordinary place becomes something I know I will remember.

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

MY ART
Landscape interests me less as geography than as atmosphere. I’m drawn to the way weather, light, reflection and color can temporarily transform a familiar place—sometimes dramatically, sometimes so quietly that the moment almost disappears before I recognize it.

My photographs often begin with real places and ordinary encounters, but I’m happiest when the resulting image starts to hover somewhere between photograph and painting: recognizable, but altered by light, distance, weather, movement or memory.

The grand view certainly has its attractions, but what usually stops me is something smaller within it—a narrow seam of light, a reflection on water, the posture of a bird, an unexpected field of color, or a moment of stillness inside an enormous sky. Those small encounters accumulate over time into what I think of as the Art of Little Things.

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