Shadow owes its birth to light.
– John Gay
Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain,
and see even here, upon a winter’s day,
how beautiful the shadows are.
Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so.
The loveliest things in life are but shadows,
and they come and go, and change and fade away…
– Charles Dickens
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the
pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which
that thing provides.
– Junichiro Tanizaki
We are but dust and shadow.
– Horace
In the city’s neon glow,
A silhouette silently watches and waits
to see the secrets of the nightly show.
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
– J.R. R. Tolkien
The silhouette says a lot with very little information,
but that’s also what the stereotype does.
– Kara Walker
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it.
The tree is the real thing.
– Abraham Lincoln
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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EXHIBITIONS
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CHILDREN
Museo degli Innocenti
Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 13
Florence, Italy
Fri, May 19, 2023 – Sun, Oct 8, 2023
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LUZ Y SOMBRAS
Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Español
La Antigua, Guatemala
Sun, Aug 13, 2023 – Mon, Nov 13, 2023
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ICONS
Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA
Fri, Oct 20, 2023 Thu, Feb 1, 2024
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13 replies on “Silhouettes and Shadows”
Your best post in a while. Stunning.
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Absolutely Stunning works of Art.
Love your beautiful photos of shadows and silhouettes. Your quotes add even more meaning to them.
Breathtaking… so beautiful and apt, thankyou
Amazing photos!! it is so rich in color, emotions, stories, i feel inspired by you Steve…great work
Wonderful images, thanks so much for sharing!
Awesome photography! I never imagined Mali to have a big body of water like that. The Niger perhaps? Very apropos selections of quotes too.
As per usual, your images are breathtaking, but my, the quotes, too wonderful!!
Although your photos are always very inspiring and beautiful,the ones you are showing us
today, are even better. At a level that makes that there are always several expositions of your work worldwide at the same time.Photography: scribing with light. Exactly what you are doing here.
Oh, my. These are wonderful!
These are so beautiful. Thank you.
These are spectacular images depicting shadows-one more fabulous than the other. The quotes sprinkled throughout set the mood quite nicely. Thank you!