An Eye in Art

  Personal circumstances brought me to Porto in late February before this city and the rest of the world was taken over by Covid-19. I have been able to photograph this urban landscape from normal life to its current state of isolation. The six photos that appear on my site were taken just at the […]

– Rua das Flores, Porto, Portugal, 2020 – Art on the street, late February. – GR – 6 Mar. 2020        

–  NoHo, Manhattan, USA, 2018  –   Street art in New York evokes the late 1970’s.   GR 2 February 2020

–  Four Chaplins, Paris, 1994  – As we enter a new year, perhaps a little humor is in order. “Four Chaplins,” in a collectibles shop window in Paris, takes us back to cinema’s genius of comedy. GR 4 January 2020

Part of a citywide installation during the 2018 Christmas season, trees are illuminated with streaks of light creating a magical display of “shooting stars.” Wishing everyone a HAPPY HOLIDAY season and BEST WISHES for 2020! GR 1 December 2019  

    Rhon (Ronny) du Castel d’Argent passed away on 9 September 2019.  And I feel lost without him.  He gave our family almost nineteen years of love and companionship and showed us the meaning of courage. For a little dog he had an enormous spirit and will to live. Although he had an “aristocratic” […]

  October light sets the tone for this painterly view of three trees displaying the transition from summer into fall. The image was photographed on Kodachrome 25 film. GR 3 October 2019  

I took this photograph of the World Trade Center towers at a tilted angle, a nod to the leaning Tower of Pisa. I could never imagine that this image would take on a whole new meaning given the horrific events that unfolded just two months later on September 11, almost 18 years ago. What had […]

  “ I have always maintained that there is no such thing as art. There are only artists, producing things that give them pleasure, doing so under some compulsion, perhaps even finding the process painful, but deriving a masochistic joy from it! “  – Jeanloup Sieff –     Jeanloup Sieff was born in Paris […]

“ To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It’s a way of life.” Henri Cartier-Bresson   For those who follow the art of street photography, arguably there is one name that for many exemplifies the best in the medium: Henri Cartier-Bresson.  Few artists have traveled as extensively, witnessed […]